Locating the medical : explorations in South Asian history / Rohan Deb Roy and Guy N.A. Attewell.

9780199092093 (ebook) :

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New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. Through case studies ranging from nineteenth- to twenty first-centuries, it addresses the following questions: How and in what conditions does an event, a substance, an actor, an institution or a particular situation of the body-mind become or cease to be considered `medical' and according to whom? How did contingent political histories engender the medical? How does the medical, in turn, reshape and sustain political categories? Is the medical necessarily a stable, coherent and continuous category? In what ways are the rigid boundaries between the medical and the nonmedical blurred?

Oxford scholarship online 2019.

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March 19, 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Medicine > South Asia > History.