Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India —— Family, Market And Homoeopathy

----- 印度殖民时期的白话医学：家庭、市场和顺势疗法

ISBN: 9781108359597 出版年：2019 页码：308 Shinjini Das Cambridge University Press

Conceptualised in opposition to 'orthodox' medicine, homoeopathy, a western medical project originating in eighteenth-century germany, was reconstituted as vernacular medicine in british bengal. India went on to become the home of the largest population of users of homoeopathic medicine in the world. Combining insights from the history of colonial medicine and the cultural histories of family in british india, shinjini das examines the processes through which western homoeopathy was translated and indigenised in the colony as a specific hindu worldview, an economic vision and a disciplining regimen. In tracing the localisation of german homoeopathy in a british indian province, this book analyses interactions between calcutta-based homoeopathic family firms, disparate contributors to the bengali print market, the british colonial state and emergent nationalist governments.