History of Indigenous Pharmaceutical Companies in Colonial Calcutta (1855–1947) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Indigenous Pharmaceutical Companies in Colonial Calcutta (1855–1947) write by Malika Basu. This book was released on 2021-01-29. History of Indigenous Pharmaceutical Companies in Colonial Calcutta (1855–1947) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the context of life and civilization, the pharmaceutical industry is as old as human existence. Since time immemorial India had its own enriched indigenous tradition of medicine. The development of alchemy and its application for human welfare was also an important step in Indian scientific tradition. The present monograph is an innovative attempt to understand the history of the indigenous pharmaceutical companies in Calcutta during the colonial times. Here pharmaceutical companies have been viewed as an illuminating lens to understand the interconnectedness between Indian traditions of thought and Western science and subsequent development of pharmaceutical industry in colonial India. The entire gamut of discussion centres around the issues of medical education, medical services, public health, pharmaceutical profession and politico-economic contexts of the development of pharmaceutical industry in colonial India. Three indigenous pharmaceuticals namely – Butto Krishna Paul & Co., Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works Limited, and East India Pharmaceutical Works Limited have been studied. The study not only portrays the politico-economic background to the emergence of the pharmaceutical industry in colonial India but links it to the economic nationalism and the quest for self-sufficiency among Indian nationalists and entrepreneurs. The pharmaceutical industry in India can be symbolic of a cultural response to modern science which was to pave the subsequent trajectory of national scientific endeavours in India. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
History of Indigenous Pharmaceutical Companies in Colonial Calcutta (1855-1947)
History of Indigenous Pharmaceutical Companies in Colonial Calcutta (1855-1947) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Indigenous Pharmaceutical Companies in Colonial Calcutta (1855-1947) write by . This book was released on 2021. History of Indigenous Pharmaceutical Companies in Colonial Calcutta (1855-1947) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Empire and Leprosy in Colonial Bengal
Empire and Leprosy in Colonial Bengal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire and Leprosy in Colonial Bengal write by Apalak Das. This book was released on 2024-03-12. Empire and Leprosy in Colonial Bengal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind. Cases of leprosy continue to be found across the world as the most crucial health problem, especially in India and Brazil. There are a few maladies that eventually turn into social disquiets, and leprosy is undoubtedly one of them. This book traces the dynamics of the interface between colonial policy on leprosy and religion, science and society in Bengal from the mid-nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries. It explores how the idea of ‘degeneration’ and the ‘desolates’ shaped the colonial legality of segregating ‘lepers’ in Indian society. The author also delves into the treatments of leprosy that were often transfigured from ‘original’ English texts, written by American or British medical professionals, into Bengali. Rich in archival resources, this book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, Indian history, public health, social history, medical humanities, medical history and colonial history.
Disparate Remedies
Disparate Remedies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disparate Remedies write by Nandini Bhattacharya. This book was released on 2023-07-15. Disparate Remedies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Cambridge History of Medicine
The Cambridge History of Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Medicine write by Roy Porter. This book was released on 2006-06-05. The Cambridge History of Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.
