Dreadful Diseases In Colonial Bengal
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Dreadful Diseases In Colonial Bengal
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Author : Suranjan Das
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Dreadful Diseases In Colonial Bengal written by Suranjan Das and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Cholera categories.
Unseen Enemy
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Author : Sudip Bhattacharya
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-30
Unseen Enemy written by Sudip Bhattacharya and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with History categories.
Europeans in early colonial Bengal fell prey to new diseases that their limited pharmacopeia, based on an imperfect knowledge of physiology, often failed to treat. This book looks at clinical observations and theories by several English doctors, who, with the encouragement of the East India Company, strove to address these ailments. This enthralling story begins with John Woodall, who never voyaged to India but equipped the surgeons’ chests aboard ships sailing there, and ends with James Esdaile’s contentious work at the experimental Mesmeric Hospital he was permitted to set up briefly in Calcutta.
Living With Epidemics In Colonial Bengal
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Author : Arabinda Samanta
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-09
Living With Epidemics In Colonial Bengal written by Arabinda Samanta and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-09 with Social Science categories.
Making epidemics in colonial Bengal as its entry point and drawing heavily on social, cultural and linguistic anthropology to understand the functions of health experiences, distribution of illness, prevention of sickness, social relations of therapeutic intervention and employment of pluralistic medical systems, the book interrogates the social construction of medical knowledge, politics of science, and the changing paradigm of relationship between health of the individual and the prerogatives of larger colonial economic formations. Smallpox, plague, cholera and malaria which visited colonial Bengal with epidemic vengeance, caught the people unaware, killed them in thousands, and changed the society and its demographic structures. The book shows how sometimes through mutual adaptation but more often by cultural contestation, people pulled on with their microbial fellow travellers, and how illness became metaphor for the social dangers of improper code of conduct, to be corrected only through personal expropriation of the sin committed, or by community worship of the deity supposedly responsible for it. As a result, Western medical science was often relegated to the background, and elaborate rites and rituals, supposedly having curative values, came to the forefront and were observed with much community fanfare. Epidemics were also interpreted as outcome of politically incorrect moves made by the ruling power. To right the wrongs, people very often resorted to social protest. The protest by the literati went sometimes muted when its members seem to be beneficiaries of the colonial government, but it turned out to be all the more violent when the people, who had no private axe to grind, took up the cudgel to fight it out.
History Of Public Health
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Author : Kabita Ray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
History Of Public Health written by Kabita Ray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Medical categories.
Living With Epidemics In Colonial Bengal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Living With Epidemics In Colonial Bengal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
Disease And Medicine In Indian Prisons
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Author : Sanchari Dutta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Disease And Medicine In Indian Prisons written by Sanchari Dutta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Bengal (India) categories.
Dreadful Diseases In Colonial Bengal
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Author : Suranjan Das
language : en
Publisher: Primus Books
Release Date : 2021-06-21
Dreadful Diseases In Colonial Bengal written by Suranjan Das and has been published by Primus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-21 with categories.
Dreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal is the third volume produced under the aegis of the Wellcome Trust (London) funded documentation project 'Western Medicine and Indigenous Society: History of Disease, Medicine and Public Health Policy in Colonial Eastern India, (1757-1947)'. While the first volume documented the context in which hospitals were established in Calcutta during the rule of the British East India Company, and the second analysed the trauma caused by tuberculosis in the public health system of twentieth-century India, the present volume brings together selections from official reports on cholera, malaria and smallpox-the three diseases which repeatedly struck colonial Bengal as epidemics. Its objective is to provide a useful resource for researchers, with ready entry points for reconstructing the incidence of these diseases, their mortality rates, social and economic effects as well as colonial medical interventions to contain them. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of studying epidemics that have struck human society in a historical continuum and the significance of the present collation needs to be viewed in this context. The book will be a welcome contribution to the rapidly developing field of History of Medicine.
Empire And Leprosy In Colonial Bengal
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Author : Apalak Das
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Empire And Leprosy In Colonial Bengal written by Apalak Das and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with History categories.
Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind. Cases of leprosy continue to be found across the world as the most crucial health problem, especially in India and Brazil. There are a few maladies that eventually turn into social disquiets, and leprosy is undoubtedly one of them. This book traces the dynamics of the interface between colonial policy on leprosy and religion, science and society in Bengal from the mid-nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries. It explores how the idea of ‘degeneration’ and the ‘desolates’ shaped the colonial legality of segregating ‘lepers’ in Indian society. The author also delves into the treatments of leprosy that were often transfigured from ‘original’ English texts, written by American or British medical professionals, into Bengali. Rich in archival resources, this book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, Indian history, public health, social history, medical humanities, medical history and colonial history.
Malarial Subjects
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Author : Rohan Deb Roy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-14
Malarial Subjects written by Rohan Deb Roy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-14 with History categories.
This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.
The Cambridge History Of Medicine
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Author : Roy Porter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-06-05
The Cambridge History Of Medicine written by Roy Porter and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-05 with Medical categories.
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.