Vendeur : Majestic Books, Hounslow, Royaume-Uni
Etat : New. pp. xx + 195. N° de réf. du vendeur 373652270
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Vendeur : Books Puddle, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
Etat : New. pp. xx + 195. N° de réf. du vendeur 26372425969
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Vendeur : Biblios, Frankfurt am main, HESSE, Allemagne
Etat : New. pp. xx + 195. N° de réf. du vendeur 18372425979
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Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The Domain of Medicine. 3. Pre-Colonial Medicine. 4. Poverty in Pre-Colonial, Colonial and Post-Colonial India. 5. Poverty, Healthcare and Medicine in Britain. 6. Colonial Climatology and Anthropology. 7. Epidemics, Infectious Diseases and the Origins of Public Health. 8. Medical Education and Health Services in Colonial India. 9. Post-colonial Medicine and Healthcare. 10. Historiography. 11. Conclusions. The book is a significant intervention in the debates and existing scholarship on colonialism and medicine. Equally critical of the postmodern perspectives and of those who claim modern medicine as 'gift' from the western world, virtually identifying modern medicine with 'western' medicine, Daya Varma sifts the irrational from the rational critiques of imperialism. He makes a strong defense of modern medicine, preventive care, hygiene and public health as core of a viable strategy for accessible medicine. Particularly striking are the linkages he makes between poverty and health, and between the state of public health in Britain and colonial India in the corresponding years, themes ignored by most scholars. Less concerned with the effect of modern medicine on "indigenous" medicine, he argues for criteria that center on the health of Indian people. Unlike most researchers and scholars of the subject, the author is well-versed in theory and practice of medicine and in medical history, which lends his book an originality and wider perspective. The book both provokes and educates. Written in a lucid and accessible language, and with a clear historical approach, the book would be of as much interest to lay persons as to historians and those in the medical profession. N° de réf. du vendeur 115050
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Vendeur : Books in my Basket, New Delhi, Inde
Hardcover. Etat : New. ISBN:9789383968060,195pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 2569817
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Vendeur : Shalimar Books, London, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : New. N° de réf. du vendeur THR-9789383968060
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