Histories of health and materiality in the Indian Ocean world : medicine, material culture and trade, 1600-2000 /: medicine, material culture and trade, 1600-2000. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anne Gerritsen, Burton Cleetus.
• Editors: Gerritsen, Anne; Cleetus, Burton
• Contents: List of FiguresList of TablesList of Abbreviations1. 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)BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.461091824; Social medicine -- Indian Ocean Region -- History; Material culture -- Indian Ocean Region -- History; Indian Ocean Region -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350195905; 9781350195899
• Related ISBNs: 9781350195882
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