A Social History of Healing in India: De-centring Indigenous Medicine
Projit Bihari Mukharji is a research fellow in the
Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, UK. His research
interests lie in the field of the social history of medicine.
- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Routledge (August 30, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415499526
- ISBN-13: 978-0415499521
This book re-connects the history of medicine with the social and
political history of India and analyses the popular and subaltern
healing practices in the region. Moving away from the view that a
relatively homogenous and discrete set of practices organized under the
name of ‘indigenous’ medicine confronted an equally homogenous and
discrete set of ‘modern’ practices in a colonial situation, the author
argues that both the pre-existing domain of healing as well as the new
forces of modernity was heterogeneous and pluralised. The book argues
that owing to this plurality on both sides their relationship was not an
uniformly confrontational one. Different aspects of the pre-existing
healing praxes articulated with different aspects of colonial modernity
through a range of ways ranging from mimesis to confrontation. The first
full-length first historical exploration of the histories of
‘minor/non-classical’ domain of healing, the book maps the intellectual
history of ‘subaltern’ healing in the region. It will be of interest to
academics working in the field of Indian history, the history of
medicine and public health.
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