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Through in-depth analysis of advertisements, politics and
group-based practices, this book analyses the complex local,
regional, and national historical developments related to the
making of the Indian consumer across a century of global
involvement. In assessing the nationalist discourse, debates on the
morality of consumption and public and private spheres, the book
demonstrates how the Indian consumer was both imagined and informed
and how the politics of consumption formed the consumer society in
India. Shedding new light on consumer cultures in India, the book
will be of interest to academics from interdisciplinary fields such
as anthropology, history, geography, sociology, South Asian studies
and area studies, popular and visual cultures.
Through in-depth analysis of advertisements, politics and
group-based practices, this book analyses the complex local,
regional, and national historical developments related to the
making of the Indian consumer across a century of global
involvement. In assessing the nationalist discourse, debates on the
morality of consumption and public and private spheres, the book
demonstrates how the Indian consumer was both imagined and informed
and how the politics of consumption formed the consumer society in
India. Shedding new light on consumer cultures in India, the book
will be of interest to academics from interdisciplinary fields such
as anthropology, history, geography, sociology, South Asian studies
and area studies, popular and visual cultures.
Based on oral history, fiction, fascinating intellectual gossip,
and records of the Coffee Board of India, this study is a
multi-sited ethnography of the Indian Coffee House, possibly the
world's first coffee house chain. It offers a critical analysis of
adda (informal meetings) of the educated middle class in Allahabad,
Calcutta and Delhi. The coffee house became the new
socio-intellectual nerve centre, replacing the neigbourhood tea
shops, and creating an entirely different social space. This book
will have line drawings and cartoons as well as archival
photographs.
The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment
have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been
paid to its direct and serious effects on human health.
Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a
loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials
for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production
and water quality."Biodiversity and Human Health" brings together
leading thinkers on the global environment and biomedicine to
explore the human health consequences of the loss of biological
diversity. Based on a two-day conference sponsored by the National
Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the
Smithsonian Institution, the book opens a dialogue among experts
from the fields of public health, biology, epidemiology, botany,
ecology, demography, and pharmacology on this vital but often
neglected concern.Contributors discuss the uses and significance of
biodiversity to the practice of medicine today, and develop
strategies for conservation of these critical resources. Topics
examined include: the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss
emerging infectious diseases and the loss of biodiversity the
significance and use of both prescription and herbal
biodiversity-derived remedies indigenous and local peoples and
their health care systems sustainable use of biodiversity for
medicine an agenda for the future In addition to the editors,
contributors include Anthony Artuso, Byron Bailey, Jensa Bell,
Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Michael Boyd, Mary S. Campbell, Eric
Chivian, Paul Cox, Gordon Cragg, Andrew Dobson, Kate Duffy-Mazan,
Robert Engelman, Paul Epstein, Alexandra S. Fairfield,
JohnGrupenhoff, Daniel Janzen, Catherine A. Laughin, Katy Moran,
Robert McCaleb, Thomas Mays, David Newman, Charles Peters, Walter
Reid, and John Vandermeer.The book provides a common framework for
physicians and biomedical researchers who wish to learn more about
environmental concerns, and for members of the environmental
community who desire a greater understanding of biomedical issues.
The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment
have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been
paid to its direct and serious effects on human health.
Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a
loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials
for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production
and water quality."Biodiversity and Human Health" brings together
leading thinkers on the global environment and biomedicine to
explore the human health consequences of the loss of biological
diversity. Based on a two-day conference sponsored by the National
Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the
Smithsonian Institution, the book opens a dialogue among experts
from the fields of public health, biology, epidemiology, botany,
ecology, demography, and pharmacology on this vital but often
neglected concern.Contributors discuss the uses and significance of
biodiversity to the practice of medicine today, and develop
strategies for conservation of these critical resources. Topics
examined include: the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss
emerging infectious diseases and the loss of biodiversity the
significance and use of both prescription and herbal
biodiversity-derived remedies indigenous and local peoples and
their health care systems sustainable use of biodiversity for
medicine an agenda for the future In addition to the editors,
contributors include Anthony Artuso, Byron Bailey, Jensa Bell,
Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Michael Boyd, Mary S. Campbell, Eric
Chivian, Paul Cox, Gordon Cragg, Andrew Dobson, Kate Duffy-Mazan,
Robert Engelman, Paul Epstein, Alexandra S. Fairfield,
JohnGrupenhoff, Daniel Janzen, Catherine A. Laughin, Katy Moran,
Robert McCaleb, Thomas Mays, David Newman, Charles Peters, Walter
Reid, and John Vandermeer.The book provides a common framework for
physicians and biomedical researchers who wish to learn more about
environmental concerns, and for members of the environmental
community who desire a greater understanding of biomedical issues.
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