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  • HEALTH AND MEDICINE IN THE INDIAN PRINCELY STATES
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    HEALTH AND MEDICINE IN THE INDIAN PRINCELY STATES
    WALTRAUD ERNST / BISWAMOY PATI / T.V. SEKHER
    Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the role of medicine has focussed primarily on regions under direct British administration. This book looks at the ‘princely states’ that made up about two fifths of the subcontinent. Two ...

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  • HISTORIES OF THE NORMAL AND THE ABNORMAL
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    HISTORIES OF THE NORMAL AND THE ABNORMAL
    WALTRAUD ERNST
    This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines – ranging from art histor...

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  • PLURAL MEDICINE, TRADITION AND MODERNITY, 1800-2000
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    PLURAL MEDICINE, TRADITION AND MODERNITY, 1800-2000
    WALTRAUD ERNST
    Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes...

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  • RACE, SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, 1700-1960
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    RACE, SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, 1700-1960
    WALTRAUD ERNST AND BERNARD HARRIS
    Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the constr...

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