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Medicine and medical policies in India : social and historical perspectives / Poonam Bala.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bala, Poonam, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--India--History.
- Medicine.
- Social medicine.
- History.
- Medical policy.
- India.
- Medical policy--India--History.
- Social medicine--India--History.
- History of Medicine.
- Health Policy--history.
- Medicine, Traditional--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Medicine.
- India.
- Health Policy--history.
- Medicine, Traditional--history.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 139 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction: studying medical trajectories and policies
- Birth of Indian medicine: state support or assault in ancient times?
- Expanding medical practice: patronage systems under Muslim rule
- Colonial imperatives, medicine and Indian response
- Conclusions: state, ideology and medical traditions in India.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [128]-136) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780739113226
- 0739113224
- OCLC:
- 104850999
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