Author: Thomas Henry STARRPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cholera
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A Discourse on the Asiatic Cholera, and its relations to some other epidemics; including general and special rules for its prevention and treatment
Author: Thomas Henry STARRPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cholera
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Living with Epidemics in Colonial Bengal
Author: Arabinda SamantaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351399659
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Making epidemics in colonial Bengal as its entry point and drawing heavily on social, cultural and linguistic anthropology to understand the functions of health experiences, distribution of illness, prevention of sickness, social relations of therapeutic intervention and employment of pluralistic medical systems, the book interrogates the social construction of medical knowledge, politics of science, and the changing paradigm of relationship between health of the individual and the prerogatives of larger colonial economic formations. Smallpox, plague, cholera and malaria which visited colonial Bengal with epidemic vengeance, caught the people unaware, killed them in thousands, and changed the society and its demographic structures. The book shows how sometimes through mutual adaptation but more often by cultural contestation, people pulled on with their microbial fellow travellers, and how illness became metaphor for the social dangers of improper code of conduct, to be corrected only through personal expropriation of the sin committed, or by community worship of the deity supposedly responsible for it. As a result, Western medical science was often relegated to the background, and elaborate rites and rituals, supposedly having curative values, came to the forefront and were observed with much community fanfare. Epidemics were also interpreted as outcome of politically incorrect moves made by the ruling power. To right the wrongs, people very often resorted to social protest. The protest by the literati went sometimes muted when its members seem to be beneficiaries of the colonial government, but it turned out to be all the more violent when the people, who had no private axe to grind, took up the cudgel to fight it out.
Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States
Author: The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States
Author: United States. Surgeon-General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cholera
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
The story of Gideon Mack, faithless minister and unfaithful husband, who is rescued from an accident by someone who just may be Satan.
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Author: British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review
Author: The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
Author: Edinburgh medical and surgical journal
Author: The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery
Author: Technologies of Knowledge
Author: Aryendra ChakravarttyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040132197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This book traces the role of technology in shaping, curating, disseminating, and archiving knowledge and life in South Asia. It focuses on empirical studies of transformative social processes unleashed by technological intervention in colonial and postcolonial contexts, which have changed our everyday lives and created new sites of domination and resistance, and new archives of history. Unraveling technology as an indicator of South Asia’s encounter with modernity, the chapters in the volume interrogate how technology was witnessed in the production of culture, historicizing and preserving the past, and establishing claims to heritage and history. In addition to examining the critical role of creative and commercial networks in establishing communities, the volume also scans the significant contribution of technology as a mechanism of social control. It highlights the pervasive nature of discourse that continues to assert its legitimacy, despite significant challenges to its structures of dominance, be it in the case of Bengali women or imperial dreams of curating a rapidly eroding past. In doing so, the volume emphasizes the discursive thoughts and practices that permeate the functioning of an empire and a postcolonial nation-state through narratives of resilience, appropriation, silences, and dissent. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, digital humanities, South Asian studies, modern history, colonialism, and post-independence India.