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Book SynopsisPoonam Bala tenaciously follows the developmental trajectory of medical pluralism in India with a keen eye to the dynamic social production of health and healing systems as social systems, practices, and technologies of power.
Trade ReviewThis succint volume is nonetheless an ambitious attempt to trace the historical trajectory of Indian medicine. Coverage of this impressively broad sweep of history from the Vedic period onward allows Bala to provide an overview of trends and continuities in the social and institutional position of medicine as knowledge tradition and therapeutic practice. -- Helen Lambert * Cultural Medical Psychiatry, February 4, 2009 *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Studying Medical Trajectories and Policies Chapter 2 Birth of Indian Medicine: State Support and Assault in Ancient Times? Chapter 3 Expanding Medical Practice: Patronage Systems under Muslim Rule Chapter 4 Colonial Imperatives, Medicine and Indian Response Chapter 5 Conclusions: State, Ideology and Medical Traditions in India
