Medicine and colonial engagements in India and sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Poonam Bala.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Bala, Poonam, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--India--History--19th century.

Medicine.

History of Medicine.

History.

India.

Medical Subjects:

History of Medicine.

Physical Description:

viii, 236 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding Colonial Engagements in the Imperial Project p. 1 / Poonam Bala

Chapter 2 Ayurveda and the Raj: Agenda for a 'Nationalist Project' p. 11 / Poonam Bala

Chapter 3 Indigenizing Population Control: Yashoda Devi and the Construction of Population Politics in Late Colonial India p. 27 / Rachel Berger

Chapter 4 Toward a Transnational Modernity: Managing Female Sexuality, Conjugality and Reproduction in the Bengali Magazine, Nara-Naree (1939-1950) p. 46 / Sutanuka Banerjee

Chapter 5 Feeding Empire: Wet Nursing and Colonial Domesticity in India p. 69 / Narin Hassan

Chapter 6 Gandhi's Moral Politics and Plague in South Africa p. 88 / Srirupa Prasad

Chapter 7 Beyond the Brown Tick: Colonial Racial Hegemony and the Control of East Coast Fever in Swaziland, 1902-1920 p. 107 / Estella Musiiwa

Chapter 8 Inimitable Colonial Anxiety: African Sexuality in Uganda's Medical History, 1900- 1945 p. 131 / Nakakyike Musisi and Seggane Musisi

Chapter 9 Building a 'Healthy' Empire: White Women, Race and Health in Colonial Zimbabwe p. 154 / Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

Chapter 10 Medical Philanthropy: Missionaries in Colonial South India p. 176 / Sam Nesamony

Chapter 11 Tropicality, Race and the Production of Medical Knowledge in Colonial Kenya p. 201 / Osaak Amukambwa Olumwullah.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781527508842

1527508846

OCLC:

1031450111

Publisher Number:

99976924571