Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figure and tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The sentencing of assisted suicide in the Nizamut Adawlut, 1810–1829: religion, health and gender in the formation of British Indian criminal law
2 The great shift: cholera theory and sanitary policy in British India, 1867–1879
3 Hakims and Haiza: unani medicine and cholera in late Colonial India
4 Of cholera, colonialism and pilgrimage sites: rethinking popular responses to state sanitation, c.1867–1900
5 Western science, indigenous medicine and the princely states: the case of Ayurvedic reorganization in Travancore, 1870–1940
6 Christian missionary women’s hospitals in Mysore state, c.1880–1930
7 The epidemiological, health and medical aspects of famine: views from the Madras Presidency (1876–78)
8 Gender and insanity: situating asylums in nineteenth-century Bengal
9 Confining ‘lunatics’: the Cuttack Asylum, c.1864–1906
10 What did the ‘wise men’ say? Gender, sexuality and women’s health in nineteenth-century Bengal
11 Feminizing empire: the Association of Medical Women in India and the campaign for a Women’s Medical Service
12 Indian physicians and public health challenges: Bombay Presidency, 1896–1920
13 Tracking kala-azar: the East Indian experience and experiments
Index