Medicine in India : modern period / O.P. Jaggi.

Author
Jaggi, O. P. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description
xxvi, 355 pages ; 29 cm.

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    Series
    • History of science, philosophy, and culture in Indian civilization. Volume IX, Colonial period ; pt. 1. [More in this series]
    • History of science, philosophy, and culture in Indian civilization. Volume IX, Colonial period ; pt. 1 [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Medicine in India is the outcome of extensive research in the field and represents a substantial contribution to the scholarship within the field of history and medicine in India.
    Notes
    "Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The colonial period
    • Scientific concepts before and after the Renaissance
    • Advent of western medical education in India
    • Hospitals in India
    • Insanitation, disease, and remedial measures
    • Army health and hygiene
    • Communicable diseases: Cholera
    • Plague
    • Smallpox
    • Malaria and other fevers
    • Kala-azar
    • Typhoid
    • Tuberculosis
    • Leprosy
    • Venereal diseases
    • Vital statistics about disease and death
    • Maternal and child health
    • Indigenous profession of midwives (dais)
    • Nursing profession in India
    • Goodwill earned by European medical personnel
    • Political and social influence of European physicians
    • Surgery in India in the second half of the nineteenth century
    • Cataract surgery: from couching to lens removal
    • Researches in material medica and pharmacology
    • Organization of medical research
    • Medical research institutes (up to 1947)
    • Early history of the Indian Medical Service
    • Creation of the Indian Medical Council
    • Medical ethics in India through the ages
    • What foreigners had to say about Ayurveda
    • Revival of Ayurveda
    • Unani medicine in India
    • Homeopathy in India
    • Nature cure system in India
    • Faith healing in India
    • Yoga
    • Indigenous systems of medicine during British supremacy in India.
    ISBN
    • 019565126X
    • 9780195651263
    LCCN
    2001294064
    OCLC
    47863420
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