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The volume explores the history of medical science and institutions in South Asia during the colonial period. It questions the foundational categories that have come to define the medical science. Colonial enlightenment established a hierarchy between what could be considered medical science and the practice outside this. Consequently all non-Western methods of healing were relegated to the status of 'non-science'. These contributions in the volume seek to displacethis easy privileging of the colonial and the Western and investigate the numerous extant indigenous forms of healing.
Contents
IntroductionRohan Deb Roy and Guy N. A. Attewell: Locating the MedicalProduction of the Medical1: Durba Mitra: Sociological Description and the Forensics of Sexuality2: Chandak Sengoopta: Treacherous Minds, Submissive Bodies: Corporeal Technologies and Human Experimentation in Colonial India3: Sudipta Sen: Confessions of the Unfriendly Spleen: Medicine, Violence, and that Mysterious Organ of Colonial IndiaEnactments of the Medical?4: Jonathan Saha: State Medicine or Medical State: A Prison Epidemic in Colonial Burma, 18815: Vishvajit Pandya and Madhumita Mazumdar: "Dr. Kar I presume!" - 'Medical' Narratives from the Jarawa Tribal ReserveRethinking Disconnections and Continuities6: Clare Anderson: The Making of an Eclectic Archive: Epistemologies of Global Knowledge in the Papers of J.P. Walker (1823-1906)7: Calum Blaikie: Absence, Abundance and Excess: Substances and Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh since the 1960s8: James H Mill: Colonizing Cannabis: Medication, Taxation, Intoxication and Oblivion, c. 1839-1955Contours of the Medical9: Shubha Ranganathan: Re-thinking the 'Medical' through the Lens of the 'Indigenous': Narratives from Mahanubhav Healing Shrines in Maharashtra10: Projit Bihari Mukharji: Vernacularizing Political Medicine: Locating the Medical Betwixt the Literal and the Literary in Two Texts on the Burdwan Fever, Bengal c. 1870s11: David Arnold: Technology and Health in Late-Colonial IndiaAfterwordMark Harrison: Making 'the Medical'
