Probing History of Medicine and Public Health in India

Bibliographic Data

ID20179622
AuthorsDeepak Kumar (0000-0003-0234-3165, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume37
Issue2
Pages259-273
Publication date2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndian Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0376-9836 • E-ISSN: 0975-5977
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/037698361003700204
OpenAlexW2149346318
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited11

The article deals with the processes and problems related to cultural encounters as reflected in the transmission of medical ideas and practices in colonial India. Precolonial experiences serve as background. Transmission was a complex process; it was never linear. One has to look at it from different angles; individuals, professional societies, institutions and of course the government policies played important and varied roles. They also differed according to time and locale. Probably they were multi-sited and this is the central argument of the article. Examples are drawn from the writings of contemporary medical men, journals, government documents and private papers, and taken together they shed some light on the contours of the interaction and the medical encounter which took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth century India

Colonialism · Political science · Social science · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy