Overview

This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ""medical"", in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh. By examining the close interactions between political authorities, corporeal knowledge, and objects of governance in a sustained manner, the domains of the medical and the non-medical are revealed to be more blurred and porous than apparent. This provides us with new perspectives on the co-production of medicine and social worlds by actors and agencies in specific times and places.

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Author:   Rohan Deb Roy (Lecturer in South Asian History, University of Reading) ,  Guy N.A. Attewell
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9780199486717

ISBN 10:   0199486719
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   11 January 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Rohan Deb Roy and Guy N.A. Attewell: Introduction: Locating the Medical I. Production of the Medical 1: Durba Mitra: Sociological Description and the Forensics of Sexuality 2: Chandak Sengoopta: Treacherous Minds, Submissive Bodies: Corporeal Technologies and Human Experimentation in Colonial India 3: Sudipta Sen: Confessions of the Unfriendly Spleen: Medicine, Violence, and That Mysterious Organ of Colonial India II. Enactments of the Medical 4: Jonathan Saha: State Medicine or Medical State? A Prison Epidemic in Colonial Burma, 1881 5: Vishvajit Pandya and Madhumita Mazumdar: ""Dr. Kar, I presume!"": 'Medical' Narratives from the Jarawa Tribal Reserve III. Rethinking Disconnections and Continuities 6: Clare Anderson: The Making of an Eclectic Archive: Epistemologies of Global Knowledge in the Papers of J.P. Walker (1823-1906) 7: Calum Blaikie: Absence, Abundance, and Excess: Substances and Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh since the 1960s 8: James H. Mills: Colonizing Cannabis: Medication, Taxation, Intoxication, and Oblivion, c. 1839-1955 IV. Contours of the Medical 9: Shubha Ranganathan: Re-thinking the 'Medical' through the Lens of the 'Indigenous': Narratives from Mahanubhav Healing Shrines in Maharashtra, India 10: Projit Bihari Mukharji: Vernacularizing Political Medicine: Locating the Medical betwixt the Literal and the Literary in Two Texts on the Burdwan Fever, Bengal c. 1870s 11: David Arnold: Technology and Health in Late Colonial India Mark Harrison: Afterword: Making 'the Medical' Notes on Editors and Contributors Index"

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...the volume is a welcome addition to the well-established field of South Asian Studies * Vivek Neelakantan, Health and History *

Author Information

Rohan Deb Roy is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Reading. He received his PhD from University College London, UK. He is the author of Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Non-humans in British India, 1820-1909. Guy N.A. Attewell is an independent researcher, and divides his time between Tamil Nadu, India, and the UK. He was formerly a Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India, and taught in University College London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UK.

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