Disparate Remedies
At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical consu...
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| description | At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical consumerism in late nineteenth-century India when British-owned firms extended their sales into remote towns. As a result, laboratory-produced drugs competed with traditional remedies through side-by-side production of Western and Indian drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The emergent middle classes, the creation of a public sphere, and nationalist politics transformed the medical culture of modern India and generated conflict between Western and Indigenous medical systems and their practitioners. Nandini Bhattacharya demonstrates that these disparate therapies were sustained through the tropes of purity or adulteration, potency or lack of it, and epistemic heritage, even when their material configuration often differed little. Uniquely engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production in the country, Disparate Remedies follows the evolution of medicine in colonial India as it confronted Indian modernity and changing public attitudes surrounding health and drugs. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1015522025-01-20T17:06:40Z Disparate Remedies Bhattacharya, Nandini Medicines; India thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical consumerism in late nineteenth-century India when British-owned firms extended their sales into remote towns. As a result, laboratory-produced drugs competed with traditional remedies through side-by-side production of Western and Indian drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The emergent middle classes, the creation of a public sphere, and nationalist politics transformed the medical culture of modern India and generated conflict between Western and Indigenous medical systems and their practitioners. Nandini Bhattacharya demonstrates that these disparate therapies were sustained through the tropes of purity or adulteration, potency or lack of it, and epistemic heritage, even when their material configuration often differed little. Uniquely engaging with the cultures of both consumption and production in the country, Disparate Remedies follows the evolution of medicine in colonial India as it confronted Indian modernity and changing public attitudes surrounding health and drugs. 2023-07-19T06:25:50Z 2023-07-19T06:25:50Z 2023-07-11T11:47:08Z 2023 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63862 9780228017523 9780228017530 9780228017905 9780228018605 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/101552 eng Intoxicating Histories open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63862/1/Bookshelf_NBK592778.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63862/1/Bookshelf_NBK592778.pdf McGill-Queen’s University Press (mqup) da2fc18a-d8a0-4c47-8e1b-63c2156ab5f4 Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9780228017523 9780228017530 9780228017905 9780228018605 Wellcome 270 Montreal open access |
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