Author: Health OrganisationPublisher: Geneva : League of Nations
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Health Organisation in British India
Author: Health OrganisationPublisher: Geneva : League of Nations
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Public Health in British India
Author: Mark HarrisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes towards India and its inhabitants, and the way in which these were reflected in medical literature and medical policy; the fate of public health at local level under Indian control; and the effects of quarantine on colonial trade and the pilgrimage to Mecca. The book places medicine within the context of debates about the government of India, and relations between rulers and ruled. In emphasising the active role of the indigenous population, and in its range of material, it differs significantly from most other work conducted in this subject area.
Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India
Author: Sujata MukherjeePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199468225
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The work traces the growth of hospital medicine in nineteenth century Bengal and shows how it created a space-albeit small-for providing western health care to female patients. It observes that, unlike in the colonial setup, before the advent of hospital medicine women were treated mostly by female practitioners of indigenous therapies who had commendable skill as practitioners. The book also explores the linkages of growth of medical education for women and the role of the Brahmo Samaj in this process. The manuscript tackles several crucial questions including those of racial discrimination, reproductive health practices, sexual health, famines and mortality, and the role of women's agencies and other organizations in popularizing western medicine and healthcare.
Health Organisation in British India. Articles Written on the Health Organisation of British India on the Occasion of the Interchange Study Tour
Author: League of NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Beyond the state
Author: Anna GreenwoodPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The Colonial Medical Service was the personnel section of the Colonial Service, employing the doctors who tended to the health of both the colonial staff and the local populations of the British Empire. Although the Service represented the pinnacle of an elite government agency, its reach in practice stretched far beyond the state, with the members of the African service collaborating, formally and informally, with a range of other non-governmental groups. This collection of essays on the Colonial Medical Service of Africa illustrates the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar. They reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration.
Health Organisation
Author: League of NationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vital statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The World Health Organization
Author: Marcos CuetoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108483577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.
Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
Author: S. PoluPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137009322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.
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Author: League of Nations