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Disparate Remedies - Nandini Bhattacharya

Disparate Remedies

Making Medicines in Modern India
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2023
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-1752-3 (ISBN)
CHF 188,55 inkl. MwSt
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At present India is a leading producer, distributer, and consumer of generic medicines. Tracing this development, Disparate Remedies explores the integrated histories of the medical market and industrially manufactured medicines in colonial and postcolonial India, engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production.
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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Intoxicating Histories
Zusatzinfo 6 photos, 3 tables
Verlagsort Montreal
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Pharmazie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 0-2280-1752-1 / 0228017521
ISBN-13 978-0-2280-1752-3 / 9780228017523
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