The New Cambridge History of India. Vol. 3, part 5
Science, Technology, and Medicine in Colonial India (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18067337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheldon Watts (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 337-340 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2001.0102 |
| OpenAlex | W2067081720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Since the appearance of his article "Cholera and Colonialism in British India" in 1986, 1 David Arnold has been recognized as the United Kingdom's leading specialist on the history of medicine in India. In 1993 he published Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India, in which he equated the particular medical and public health ideas that the British used in India with "scientific knowledge and power." 2 Going further, he held that "medicine needs to be understood as an influential and authoritative vehicle, not just for the transmission of Western ideas and practices to India but also for the generation and propagation of Western ideas about India" 3 Here, then, Arnold gave readers no cause to think that Viceroy and Governor General Lord Curzon was less than fair when in 1899 he claimed that the British gift of western medicine to India fully legitimated the British presence on the subcontinent. 4
Alternative medicine · Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Governor · History of medicine · Indian subcontinent · Power (physics) · State (computer science) · Traditional Chinese medicine · Western medicine · Classics · Engineering · Health and Conflict Studies · History · Medicine
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |