Locating the medical : explorations in South Asian history / edited by Rohan Deb Roy, Guy N.A. Attewell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Deb Roy, Rohan, editor.

Attewell, Guy N. A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical sciences.

History.

India.

South Asia.

Asia.

Medical sciences--South Asia--History--19th century.

Medical sciences--South Asia--History--20th century.

Medical sciences--India--History--19th century.

Medical sciences--India--History--20th century.

History of Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

Asia.

History of Medicine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 307 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780199486717

0199486719

OCLC:

1019664765

Publisher Number:

99976738957