Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World

Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World

Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000

Gerritsen, Dr Anne; Cleetus, Burton

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

08/2024

320

Mole

Inglês

9781350196483

15 a 20 dias

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1. Health, Medicine, and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: A Material Culture Approach, Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK) and Burton Cleetus (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
2. 'Europe does not want you': Natural History, Materia Medica and the Empire, Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester, UK)
3. In Pursuit of a Healing Eden: Exploring the Medico-Botanical Networks of Knowledge Circulation in the Indian Ocean Region with Special Reference to South India, 1600-1800 CE, Malavika Binny (SRM University Amravati, India)
4. Rhubarb in the Indian Ocean World: The Entangled Itinerary of a Material Complex, Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK)
5. Perfumes in Early Modern India: Ephemeral Materiality and Aromatic Mobility, Amrita Chattopadhyay (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
6. Letters to the Vaidyan: The Circulation of Ayurvedic Drugs and Knowledge from Kottakkal Aryavaidyasala to South-East Asia, Burton Cleetus (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
7. Toxic Trading: Poisons and Medicines in British India, David Arnold (University of Warwick, UK)
8. 'The All-Cleansing Soap'? History of Soap in Keralam, c. 1880-1950, Greeshma Justin John (University of Hyderabad, India)
9. Chaulmoogra: Trading Indian Ocean World Leprosy Remedies in the South Pacific, Jane Buckingham (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
10. Bodies in Circulation: Determining Age and Regulating Health of Transported Convicts to the Andamans, c. 1860s-1920s, Suparna Sengupta (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India)
11. From Tribal Knowledge to Ayurvedic Medicine: Transition of Arogyapacha, the Wonder Herb of Kerala, Girija K.P. (Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla)
12. Of Miracle Drugs, Captain Hooks and Colonialism 2.0: Bioprospecting, Biopiracy and the Patenting of Tribal Bioresources and Medicinal Knowledge, Kaushiki Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
13. Privileging the Body: The Bio-materialisation of Medicine and the Asymmetrical Production of Pluralism, Harish Naraindas (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)

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Empire; Natural History; Indian Ocean; knowledge circulation; colonialism; medicine; science; health; Asia; botanical