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Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power
and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between
traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by
colonizers are explored across both territories. Chapters address
issues of education, public health, autonomy and the transfer of
knowledge, using case studies on birth-control, plague,
human-animal diseases, AIDS, the legal system and the treatment of
the mentally ill to compare and contrast these ex-British colonies.
Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power
and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between
traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by
colonizers are explored across both territories.
The essays in this volume examine the nature and extent of disease
on indigenous communities and local populations located within the
vast regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans as a result of
colonial sea power and colonial conquest. While this established a
long-term impact of disease on populations, the essays also offer
insights into the dynamics of these populations in resisting
colonial intrusions and introduction of disease to newly-acquired
territories.
Poonam Bala s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay
of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in
colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites,
nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in
the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian
Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic,
social, literary and scientific essentials, Contesting Colonial
Authority highlights various indigenous interpretations and
mechanisms through which Indian sciences and medicine were
projected against the cultural background of a rich medical
tradition.
While literature on medicine and colonialism has increased rapidly
in the past nearly two decades, this volume presents yet another
way of looking at ideas of medicine, health, and disease. It
portrays the role played by power in various ways in which
biomedicine became a site of contested ventures-a site which saw an
interplay of medicine, ruling ideologies, and resistance by
indigenous populations. Ideas of disease and health range from
control of infectious diseases and epidemics, medications and
indigenous therapeutics, clinical medicine and surgery, to
reproductive health, with the added dimension of medical pluralism
and elites as enabling these interactions and processes. This book
will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of
history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, and public health. With
essays on different regions around the world, it will serve as a
guide to scholars and students in colonial studies, history of
medicine, and world history.
While literature on medicine and colonialism has increased rapidly
in the past nearly two decades, this volume presents yet another
way of looking at ideas of medicine, health, and disease. It
portrays the role played by power in various ways in which
biomedicine became a site of contested ventures_a site which saw an
interplay of medicine, ruling ideologies, and resistance by
indigenous populations. Ideas of disease and health range from
control of infectious diseases and epidemics, medications and
indigenous therapeutics, clinical medicine and surgery, to
reproductive health, with the added dimension of medical pluralism
and elites as enabling these interactions and processes. This book
will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students of
history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, and public health. With
essays on different regions around the world, it will serve as a
guide to scholars and students in colonial studies, history of
medicine, and world history.
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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