Explores the intersections of Western medical practices, indigenous healing traditions, and the impact of colonial policies on public health and society.
The fees for Social History of Medicine in Colonial India is :
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Exam fees
Rs. 1,000
The Syllabus
Introduction: Significance of medicine in the colonial context - Colonial understandings of Indian landscape, diseases and causations - Initial attitudes towards indigenous systems – Concerns about survival and initial medical measures
The IMS (Indian Medical Service) - Medical Departments - Enclavism - Shifts in the discourses on race, climate and diseases - Hill stations and Sanatoria - Medical Education
From White personnel’s health to ‘Native’ and Public Health - Challenge of Epidemics (Smallpox, Malaria, Cholera, Plague), Sanitary Measures, Challenges of International Trade and Politics
Local Response - Compliances and Resistances - Cultural challenges - Volunteer Associations – Role of media and local intelligentsia
Tropical Paradigm - Tropical Diseases and Tropical Medicine; Medical Research – Emergence of Bacteriological and other Research Institutions – Malarial and other field surveys/researches - Vaccine Research and Production
Colonial Medicine and Women – Zenana Missions, Lock Hospitals, Scientific Midwifery, Nursing, Women’s Medical Institutions, Women’s Medical Service (WMS).
Non-State initiatives – Setting up of funds, dispensaries, hospitals and colleges through private philanthropy – Role of Missionaries
Western versus Indigenous Systems – Revivalist movements - Professionalization of indigenous systems - Standardization of texts and drugs - Commercialization
Indian Institute of Technology Madras via SRM Institute of Science and Technology, ChennaiMar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, ThiruvananthapuramPSG College of Technology, CoimbatoreSwayamNPTEL