Medical encounters in British India / edited by Deepak Kumar and Raj Sekhar Basu

Includes bibliography and glossary.

I. THE MULTIPLICITY OF DOMAINS : Probing history of medicine and public health in India: a study of encounters at multiple sites / Deepak Kumar -- Anatomical knowledge and east west exchange / Jayanta Bhattacharya -- From Bazaar medicine to hospital medicine: Calomel, India and the British Empire, c1750-c1800 / Mark Harrison -- Dietetics, mimesis and alterity: food in Asian medical traditions and east west exchanges / David Arnold -- Health and sovereignty in the new Asia: the decline and rise of the Tropics / Sunil Amrith -- II. THE DIFFERING PERCEPTIONS : Cholera, heroic therapies and rise of homeopathy in 19th century India / Dhruv Kumar Singh -- Knowing health and medicine: a case study of Benares, c.1900-1950 / Madhuri Sharma -- Healing the sick and the destitute: Protestant Missionaries and Medical Missions in 19th and 20th century Travancore / Raj Sekhar Basu -- A mixed record: malaria control in Bombay Presidency, 1900-1935 / Mridula Ramanna -- Vulnerability of women to bacillus: myths and reality in India, 1890-1950 / Bikramaditya Kumar Choudhary -- Negotiating subalternity in everyday life: social construction of Tuberculosis in colonial and post-colonial India / Arabinda Samanta -- Delivering the 'Murdered Child': infanticide, abortion and contraception in colonial India / Indira Chowdhury