Medicine and Medical Policies in India Social

Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH. Explores how a turbulently emerging Indian state with shifting alliances and evolving ideologies gave rise to a particular growth of scientific and specifically medical traditions in India. Topics include patronage systems under Muslim rule, colonial imperatives, and more. For medical historians. DNLM: History of Medicine-India.

Poonam Bala is a lecturer for the history department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and most recently, an associate professor in sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.

Introduction : studying medical trajectories and policies	p. 1
Birth of Indian medicine : state support or assault in ancient times?	p. 11
Expanding medical practice : patronage systems under Muslim rule	p. 41
Colonial imperatives, medicine and Indian response	p. 68
Conclusions : political, ideology and medical traditions in India	p. 106
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Medicine and Medical Policies in India Social and Historical Perspectives

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