Overview

This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. Through case studies ranging from nineteenth- to twenty first-centuries, it addresses the following questions: How and in what conditions does an event, a substance, an actor, an institution or a particular situation of the body-mind become or cease to be considered 'medical' and according to whom? How did contingent political histories engender the medical? How does the medical, in turn, reshape and sustain political categories? Is the medical necessarily a stable, coherent and continuous category? In what ways are the rigid boundaries between the medical and the nonmedical blurred? In so doing, Locating the Medical examines close interactions between political authorities, corporeal knowledge and objects of governance.

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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
ISBN:  

9780199480197

ISBN 10:   0199480192
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   18 January 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Rohan Debroy is Lecturer in South Asian History, Department of History, University of Reading. Guy N. A. Attewell was formerly Lecturer in University College, London, Researcher, French Institute of Pondicherry. At present he is an independent researcher.

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