Locating the Medical

Rohan Deb Roy is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Reading. He received his PhD from University College London, UK. He is the author of Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Non-humans in British India, 1820-1909. Guy N.A. Attewell is an independent researcher, and divides his time between Tamil Nadu, India, and the UK. He was formerly a Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India, and taught in University College London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UK.

Rohan Deb Roy and Guy N.A. Attewell: Introduction: Locating the Medical
I. Production of the Medical
1: Durba Mitra: Sociological Description and the Forensics of Sexuality
2: Chandak Sengoopta: Treacherous Minds, Submissive Bodies: Corporeal Technologies and Human Experimentation in Colonial India
3: Sudipta Sen: Confessions of the Unfriendly Spleen: Medicine, Violence, and That Mysterious Organ of Colonial India
II. Enactments of the Medical
4: Jonathan Saha: State Medicine or Medical State? A Prison Epidemic in Colonial Burma, 1881
5: Vishvajit Pandya and Madhumita Mazumdar: "Dr. Kar, I presume!": 'Medical' Narratives from the Jarawa Tribal Reserve
III. Rethinking Disconnections and Continuities
6: Clare Anderson: The Making of an Eclectic Archive: Epistemologies of Global Knowledge in the Papers of J.P. Walker (1823-1906)
7: Calum Blaikie: Absence, Abundance, and Excess: Substances and Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh since the 1960s
8: James H. Mills: Colonizing Cannabis: Medication, Taxation, Intoxication, and Oblivion, c. 1839-1955
IV. Contours of the Medical
9: Shubha Ranganathan: Re-thinking the 'Medical' through the Lens of the 'Indigenous': Narratives from Mahanubhav Healing Shrines in Maharashtra, India
10: Projit Bihari Mukharji: Vernacularizing Political Medicine: Locating the Medical betwixt the Literal and the Literary in Two Texts on the Burdwan Fever, Bengal c. 1870s
11: David Arnold: Technology and Health in Late Colonial India
Mark Harrison: Afterword: Making 'the Medical'
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index