{"product_id":"disease-medicine-in-india-a-historical-overview","title":"Disease \u0026 Medicine in India - A Historical Overview","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Deepak Kumar\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Tulika\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2001\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 307\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8185229538\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays comprising this volume, in presenting the history of disease and medicine in ancient, medieval and colonial India, seek to achieve a balance between social constructivism and historical relativism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history of science, technology and medicine has always occupied a special place in Indian history through the ages.  Its significance, especially from a sociocultural perspective, cannot be ignored.  In recognition of the importance of this subject, the 61st session of the Indian History Congress, held in Kolkata in January 2001, organized a special panel on the history of health conditions and the progress of medicine in India.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present volume, edited and introduced by Deepak Kumar, brings together the papers presented at this pane, along with some fresh contributions.  The essays comprising this volume, in presenting the history of disease and medicine in ancient, medieval and colonial India, seek to achieve a balance between social constructivism and historical relativism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial History of Medicine: Some Issues and Concerns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRE-MODERN INDIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisease, Surgery and Health in the Harappan Civilization \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurgery in Early India: A Note on the Development of Medical Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedieval Theories of Vision and the Introduction of Spectacles in India, c. 1200-1750 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhysicians as Professionals in Medieval India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Sixteenth-Century Code for Physicians\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside and Outside the Systems: Change and Innovation in Medical and Surgical Practice in Mughal India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmallpox and its Treatment in Pre-Modern India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf Therapeutics and Prophylactics: The exegesis of an Eighteenth-Century Tract of Smallpox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMODERN INDIA\u003cbr\u003eEnvironmental Factors Contributing to Malaria in Colonial Bengal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMalaria in Nineteenth-Century Bombay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Clouds of Cholera’ and Clouds around Cholera’ 1817-70 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Empire ‘De-Masculinized’!: The British colonial State and the Problem of Syphilis in Nineteenth Century India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedical Missionaries at Work: The Canadian Baptist Missionaries in the Telugu Country, 1870-1952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisciplining the Body? Health Care for Women and Children in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial History of Western Medical Practice in Travancore: An Inquiry into the Administrative Process\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGauging Indian Responses to Western Medicine: Hospitals and Dispensaries, Bombay Presidency, 1900-20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublic Health Issues and the Freedom Movement: Gandhi on Nutrition, Sanitation, Infectious Diseases and Health Care\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEliding History: The World Bank’s Health Policies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Deepak Kumar \/ Tulika \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153704415600,"sku":"8682","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/8682.jpg?v=1793912918","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/disease-medicine-in-india-a-historical-overview","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}