Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History - Hardcover
Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History - Hardcover
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by Rohan Deb Roy (Editor), Guy N. a. Attewell (Editor)
This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the "medical", in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh.
By examining the close interactions between political authorities, corporeal knowledge, and objects of governance in a sustained manner, the domains of the medical and the non-medical are revealed to be more blurred and porous than apparent. This provides us with new perspectives on the co-production of medicine and social worlds by actors and agencies in specific times and places.Author Biography
Rohan Deb Roy is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Reading. He received his PhD from University College London, UK. He is the author of Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (2017).
Guy N.A. Attewell is an independent researcher, and divides his time between Tamil Nadu, India, and the UK. He was formerly a Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India, and taught in University College London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UK.