Syllabus
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Course Code: HIS-E-41(ii) Course Name: Health and Medicine in India 1200-1947 |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Towards the Social History of Health and Medicine: Sources and Approaches of the History of Health and Medicine; Developments in Scholarship – The Shift from ‘Colonial Medicine’ to the Social History of Health and Medicine; Beliefs and Practices; Concept of the Disease – Body, Health and Illness; Concept of the Hygiene – ‘Pure’ and ‘Impure’; Sanitation Technology | |
| 2 | The Pre-Colonial Medicinal and Healing Systems in India: Ayurvedic, Yunani, Homoeopathic and Adivasi Healing Systems; Interactions between Ayurvedic and Yunani Therapies; The Indigenous Medical Practitioners – Vaids, Hakims and Homoeopaths; The Early 18th Century and the Turn to Arabic Learning – Discussions on Religion and Medicine; The Pre-Colonial Systems of Preventive Medicine and Therapies | |
| 3 | Evolution of the Colonial Policy of Public Health in India: The Meaning and Relevance of Colonial Medicine – Tool of Empire? Early Colonial Concerns about Health; Political Economy of the Issue of Health; Ideas, Aspects and Policy of Urban Health and Public Health; Colonial Discourse on the Tropical Diseases; Founding of Medical Institutions: Colleges, Hospitals and Pharmacies | |
| 4 | Colonial Medical Interventions and Indian Society: Dialogue between Western and Indigenous Medicines: Allopathic Medical Theories and the Indigenous ‘Inputs’ – Race, Caste, Tribe and Gender; Outbreak of Epidemics and the Colonial Medical Interventions in Public Health – Vaccination Policy, Quarantine and ‘Lock Hospitals’; The Issue of Gender, Missionaries and Women’s Health; Centres of ‘Confinement’– Leprosy, Lunatic and Mental Asylums; ‘Indigenous Response’ to Western Medicine and Colonial Medical Interventions – Popular Perceptions, Public Debates and the Nationalist Perspective | |
