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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Biswamoy Pati , Mark HarrisonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge India Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367735258ISBN 10: 0367735253 Pages: 326 Publication Date: 18 December 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. The Sentencing of Assisted Suicide in the Nizamut Adawlut, 1810-1829: Religion, Health and Gender in the Formation of British Indian Criminal Law 2. The Great Shift: Cholera Theory and Sanitary Policy in British India, 1867-1879 3. Hakims and Haiza: Unani Medicine and Cholera in Late-Colonial India 4. Of Cholera, Colonialism and Pilgrimage Sites: Rethinking Popular Responses to State Sanitation, c.1867-1900 5. Western Science, Indigenous Medicine and the Princely States: The Case of the Ayurvedic Reorganisation in Travancore, 1870-1940 6. Christian Missionary Women’s Hospitals in Mysore State, c. 1880-1930 7. The Epidemiological, Health and Medical Aspects of Famine: Views from the Madras Presidency (1876-78) 8. Gender and Insanity: Situating the Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Bengal 9. Confining 'Lunatics': The Cuttack Asylum, c.1864-1906 10. What did the ‘Wise Men’ Say? Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Health in Nineteenth-Century Bengal 11. Feminizing Empire: The Association of Medical Women in India and the Campaign for a Women’s Medical Service 12. Indian Physicians and Public Health Challenges: Bombay Presidency, 1896-1920 13. Tracking Kala-azar: The East Indian Experience and Experiments. IndexReviewsAuthor InformationBiswamoy Pati was Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and taught Modern Indian History at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. His research is on the diversities of colonial South Asia and some of his books include Resisting Domination: Peasants, Tribals and the National Movement on Orissa, 1920–1950 (1993) and South Asia from the Margins: Echoes of Orissa, 1800–2000 (2012). He edited The 1857 Rebellion (2007); and co-edited (with Mark Harrison) Health, Medicine and Empire (2001) and The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (2009); and (with Waltraud Ernst) India’s Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism (2007). Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. He has written widely on the history of medicine in relation to war, medicine and imperialism. His publications include Public Health in British India (1994); Climates and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment and British Imperialism in India 1600–1850 (1999); Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies 1660–1830 (2010); Contagion (2011); several edited volumes; and Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India (2001) and The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (2009) both co-edited with Biswamoy Pati. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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