Name: Diseases, Medicine and Healthcare in Colonial Bengal (en Inglés)
SKU: 68637076
Price: 110850.00 CLP
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Author: Bipul Mandal;Ritabrata Goswami
ISBN: 9789374518588

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Diseases, Medicine and Healthcare in Colonial Bengal (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Manohar Books

Autor

Bipul Mandal;Ritabrata Goswami

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

359

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23x15 cm

ISBN13

9789374518588

Diseases, Medicine and Healthcare in Colonial Bengal (en Inglés)

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This volume presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of disease, medicine, and healthcare in colonial Bengal, foregrounding the complex interactions between colonial power, indigenous knowledge systems, social practices, and the lived experiences of illness. Moving beyond a purely institutional history of medicine, it examines how epidemics – cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, and fever – shaped colonial governance, public health policies, and everyday life across the districts of Bengal.

Drawing on a rich array of archival sources, literary texts, missionary records, and local histories, the contributors analyse the coexistence and contestation between Western medicine and indigenous traditions including Ayurveda, Unani, folk healing, and homeopathy. Special attention is paid to marginal spaces and communities – tribal groups, plantation labourers, industrial workers, women, and rural populations – revealing how health and disease were deeply embedded in questions of labour, environment, gender, religion, and nationalism.

The book also highlights the role of medical institutions, missionaries, health propaganda, and public health measures in shaping colonial modernity. By situating medical practices within broader socio-economic and cultural contexts, this volume makes a significant contribution to the histories of medicine, colonialism, and South Asia, and will be valuable to historians, social scientists, and students alike.