Medical encounters in British India / 
edited by Deepak Kumar and Raj Sekhar Basu. 
 - viii, 329 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324). 
<br/><br/>Table of contents<br/>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ;<br/>INTRODUCTION ; <br/>SECTION I: THE MULTIPLICITY OF DOMAINS ; <br/>1. PROBING HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN INDIA: A STUDY OF ENCOUNTERS AT MULTIPLE SITES (DEEPAK KUMAR) ; <br/>2. ANATOMICAL KNOWLEDGE AND EAST-WEST EXCHANGE (JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA) ; <br/>3. FROM BAZAAR MEDICINE TO HOSPITAL MEDICINE: CALOMEL, INDIA AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE, C.1750-C.1800 (MARK HARRISON) ; <br/>4. DIETETICS, MIMESIS, AND ALTERITY: FOOD IN ASIAN MEDICAL TRADITIONS AND EAST-WEST EXCHANGES (DAVID ARNOLD) ; <br/>5. HEALTH AND SOVEREIGNTY IN THE NEW ASIA: THE DECLINE AND RISE OF THE TROPICS (SUNIL AMRITH) ; <br/>SECTION II: THE DIFFERING PERCEPTIONS ; <br/>6. CHOLERA, HEROIC THERAPIES, AND RISE OF HOMOEOPATHY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY INDIA (DHRUB KUMAR SINGH) ; <br/>7. KNOWING HEALTH AND MEDICINE: A CASE STUDY OF BENARES, C.1900-1950 (MADHURI SHARMA) ; <br/>8. HEALING THE SICK AND THE DESTITUTE: PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES AND MEDICAL MISSIONS IN NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY TRAVANCORE (RAJ SEKHAR BASU) ; <br/>9. A MIXED RECORD: MALARIA CONTROL IN BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, 1900-1935 (MRIDULA RAMANNA) ; <br/>10. VULNERABILITY OF WOMEN TO BACILLUS: MYTHS AND REALITY IN INDIA (1890-1950) (BIKRAMADITYA K. CHOUDHARY) ; <br/>11. NEGOTIATING SUBALTERNITY: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF TUBERCULOSIS IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL INDIA (ARABINDA SAMANTA) ; <br/>12. 'DELIVERING THE "MURDERED CHILD": INFANTICIDE, ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION IN COLONIAL INDIA' (INDIRA CHOWDHURY) ; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ; <br/>NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198089216 (hardback) 019808921X (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013319209 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB2A4259  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016190598  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medicine--History.--India<br/>Medical policy--History.--India<br/>Public health--History.--India<br/>Traditional medicine--History.--India
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R605  / .M396 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.954 KUM