Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
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.
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
R605 .J355 2000
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Medicine
—
India
—
History
—
20th century
[Browse]
Medicine
—
History
[Browse]
Related name
Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture
[Browse]
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.
Show 34 more Contents items
ISBN
019565126X
9780195651263
LCCN
2001294064
OCLC
47863420
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information