Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India - Couverture souple

Bhattacharya, Nandini

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022801753X ISBN 13 : 9780228017530

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023

Synopsis

At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical consumerism in late nineteenth-century India when British-owned firms extended their sales into remote towns. As a result, laboratory-produced drugs competed with traditional remedies through side-by-side production of Western and Indian drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The emergent middle classes, the creation of a public sphere, and nationalist politics transformed the medical culture of modern India and generated conflict between Western and Indigenous medical systems and their practitioners. Nandini Bhattacharya demonstrates that these disparate therapies were sustained through the tropes of purity or adulteration, potency or lack of it, and epistemic heritage, even when their material configuration often differed little. Uniquely engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production in the country, Disparate Remedies follows the evolution of medicine in colonial India as it confronted Indian modernity and changing public attitudes surrounding health and drugs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nandini Bhattacharya is associate professor at the University of Houston, Texas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022801753X
• ISBN 13: 9780228017530
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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