Varma daya ram (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xx + 195.

Zustand: New. pp. x + 354.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The Domain of Medicine. 3. Pre-Colonial Medicine. 4. Poverty in Pre-Colonial, Colonial and Post-Colonial India. 5. Poverty, Healthcare and Medicine in Britain. 6. Colonial Climatology and Anthropology. 7. Epidemics, Infectious Diseases and the Origins of Public Health. 8. Medical Education and Health Services in Colonial India. 9. Post-colonial Medicine and Healthcare. 10. Historiography. 11. Conclusions. The book is a significant intervention in the debates and existing scholarship on colonialism and medicine. Equally critical of the postmodern perspectives and of those who claim modern medicine as 'gift' from the western world, virtually identifying modern medicine with 'western' medicine, Daya Varma sifts the irrational from the rational critiques of imperialism. He makes a strong defense of modern medicine, preventive care, hygiene and public health as core of a viable strategy for accessible medicine. Particularly striking are the linkages he makes between poverty and health, and between the state of public health in Britain and colonial India in the corresponding years, themes ignored by most scholars. Less concerned with the effect of modern medicine on "indigenous" medicine, he argues for criteria that center on the health of Indian people. Unlike most researchers and scholars of the subject, the author is well-versed in theory and practice of medicine and in medical history, which lends his book an originality and wider perspective. The book both provokes and educates. Written in a lucid and accessible language, and with a clear historical approach, the book would be of as much interest to lay persons as to historians and those in the medical profession.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The Art and Science of Medicine. 3. Socio-Political Determinants of Medical Science. 4. The Age of Spiritual Medicine. 5. Empirical Medicine: Egypt. 6. The Transition to Materialist Medicine: Ayurveda. 7. The Transition to Materialist Medicine: Chinese Medicine. 8. The Age of Materialism: Greek Medicine. 9. The Age of Stagnation of Medical Science. 10. Islamic Medicine. 11. The Age of Witch Hunt. 12. The Age of Allopathy [overdosing] and Homeopathy. 13. Therapeutics Since Antiquity. 14. Modern Medicine Comes of Age. 15. Medical Ethics and Medical Science. 16. The Sun Rises in the West. 17. Survival of the Fit and the Unfit Medicines. Appendix. Subject Index. There is no such thing as Chinese, Hindu, Islamic or European physics or chemistry. Why then are there distinct schools of medicine (Ayurvedic, Chinese, Unani, Homeopathic, etc.)? What has been the role of witchcraft in the history of healing? What has been the contribution of women in healing and medicine in antiquity and in the modern world? Why has the materialist outlook been so important for the development of modern medicine? Why do other schools of medicine survive in the modern age? Is ancient Greek medicine the only heritage of modern medicine? What have been the Islamic contributions to science and medicine? What has been the political economy of medicine under capitalism? How did the development of capitalism lead to advances in medicine and health care? Why does medical research today pay great attention to diseases of the rich and of the developed countries than to diseases that affect the majority in developing countries? What is the role of pharmaceutical giants in making health care inaccessible? Why is the expansion of a universal public health care system so important? What constitutes medical ethics? The reader will find answers to these and many other questions in a language that is lucid and friendly.…

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