Course10910620344 lectures
Social History of Medicine In Colonial India
Prof. John Bosco Lourdusamy · IIT Madras
About
This course seeks to examine the links between medicine and colonialism in the Indian context, roughly between the 18th and 20th centuries. It will focus particularly on the social and cultural dimensions of the encounter between western medicine and indigenous systems. The course will also discuss the institutionalization of public health in India and examine how the colonial encounter left lasting legacies.
This course will enable the students to understand the growth of modern medical science and practices in colonial India; the social and cultural dimensions of the colonial public health and medical policies; and the nature of the encounter between diverse medical traditions
Intended audience: 1.Undergraduates and Graduates from Humanities and Social Science Departments2.Elective for Undergraduates and Graduates from BTech courses3.PhD students in History
Lectures
Week 1
- Significance of Medicine in the Colonial Context
- Medicine as Cultural and Intellectual Encounter
- TUTORIAL 1
- Colonial Understandings of Indian Landscape, Diseases and Causations; Initial Concerns About Survival
- Initial Attitudes Towards Indigenous Systems
Week 2
- The IMS (Indian Medical Service)
- TUTORIAL 2
- British Settling; Enclavism
- Consolidation of Medical Measures
- Medical Education
Week 3
- Public Health and Sanitary Measures
- Sanitary Education ; Statistics ; Epidemics
- TUTORIAL 3
- Small Pox
- Malaria
Week 4
- Cholera and Plague
- Epidemics, Colonial Cultural Stereotypes and Accommodative Approaches
- Epidemics, Cultural Dimensions of Indian Responses and Role of Media
- Epidemics and International Influences
- TUTORIAL 4
- TUTORIAL 4 Part 2
Week 5
- Tropical Medicine
- Kala Azar as Exemplar of Tropical Disease
- Tropical and Bacteriological Research
- Malarial Research and Surveys, Vaccine Research and Production
- TUTORIAL 5
- TUTORIAL 5 Part 2
Week 6
- Women Health: Zenana Mission ; Dufferin Fund
- Association of Medical Women in India; Lock Hospitals; Regulation of Dais
- Nursing
- Women's Medical Education; Women’s Medical Service
- TUTORIAL 6
Week 7
- Colonial State and Medical Volunteerism
- Role of Missionaries Part 1
- Role of Missionaries Part 2
- Reforms Movements and Indigenous Voluntary Organisations.
- Role of International Organisationas and Individuals
- TUTORIAL 7
Week 8
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Madras
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. John Bosco Lourdusamy
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
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