A medical sociologist with a historian's obsession with detail and
documentation, Poonam Bala tenaciously follows the developmental
trajectory of medical pluralism in India with a keen eye to the
dynamic social production of health and healing systems as social
systems, practices, and technologies of power. Covering a broad
swathe of history, this book explores how a turbulently emerging
Indian State with shifting alliances and evolving rules ideologies
(with the accompanying emergence of class and caste identities and
opportunities) gave rise to a particular growth of scientific and,
specifically, medical traditions in India. As a set of healing
practices, a literary art, and a cultural knowledge base, India's
medical traditions represent 'an acculturated product' of competing
ideologies and the expression of contested State, and social and
religious policies over time. Bala focuses on the power of State
intervention and multiple levels of patronage to shape medical
practice and theory, and in turn, India's very history.
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