The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison

By Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison

This booklet analyzes the various points of the social heritage of health and wellbeing and drugs in colonial India. It explores a distinct set of subject matters that catch the variations of India, akin to public overall healthiness, scientific associations, psychological disease and the politics and economics of colonialism. according to inter-disciplinary examine, the contributions supply precious perception into issues that experience lately obtained elevated scholarly awareness, together with using opiates and the function of ads in riding clinical markets. The individuals, either validated and rising students within the box, include resources starting from palm leaf manuscripts to archival fabrics.



This booklet can be of curiosity to students of background, specifically the background of drugs and the historical past of colonialism and imperialism, sociology, social anthropology, cultural thought, and South Asian reports, in addition to to medical examiners and NGOs.

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