Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Re-Constructing’ Indian Medicine: The Role of Caste in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
- 2 The Resurgence of Indigenous Medicine in the Age of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: South Africa Beyond the ‘Miracle’
- 3 Medicine, Medical Knowledge and Healing at the Cape of Good Hope: Khoikhoi, Slaves and Colonists
- 4 Dealing with Disease: Epizootics, Veterinarians and Public Health in Colonial Bengal, 1850–1920
- 5 Mahatma Gandhi under the Plague Spotlight
- 6 Plague Hits the Colonies: India and South Africa at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- 7 The Blind Men and the Elephant: Imperial Medicine, Medieval Historians and the Role of Rats in the Historiography of Plague
- 8 Physicians, Forceps and Childbirth: Technological Intervention in Reproductive Health in Colonial Bengal
- 9 Not Fit for Punishment: Diagnosing Criminal Lunatics in Late Nineteenth-Century British India
- 10 Multiple Voices and Plausible Claims: Historiography and Colonial Lunatic Asylum Archives
- 11 Death and Empire: Legal Medicine in the Colonization of India and Africa
- Notes
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Re-Constructing’ Indian Medicine: The Role of Caste in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
- 2 The Resurgence of Indigenous Medicine in the Age of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: South Africa Beyond the ‘Miracle’
- 3 Medicine, Medical Knowledge and Healing at the Cape of Good Hope: Khoikhoi, Slaves and Colonists
- 4 Dealing with Disease: Epizootics, Veterinarians and Public Health in Colonial Bengal, 1850–1920
- 5 Mahatma Gandhi under the Plague Spotlight
- 6 Plague Hits the Colonies: India and South Africa at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- 7 The Blind Men and the Elephant: Imperial Medicine, Medieval Historians and the Role of Rats in the Historiography of Plague
- 8 Physicians, Forceps and Childbirth: Technological Intervention in Reproductive Health in Colonial Bengal
- 9 Not Fit for Punishment: Diagnosing Criminal Lunatics in Late Nineteenth-Century British India
- 10 Multiple Voices and Plausible Claims: Historiography and Colonial Lunatic Asylum Archives
- 11 Death and Empire: Legal Medicine in the Colonization of India and Africa
- Notes
- Index
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- Medicine and ColonialismHistorical Perspectives in India and South Africa, pp. 221 - 225Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014