Chapter 5. Health and Medicine in British India and Dutch Indies: A Comparative Study

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chapter 1. Introduction: The Politics of Culture and Medicine 1
4. Chapter 2. Āyurvedic Acupuncture-Transnational Nationalism: Ambivalence About the Origin and Authenticity of Medical Knowledge 21
5. Chapter 3. Deviant Airs in "Traditional" Chinese Medicine 45
6. Chapter 4. Reinventing Traditional Medicine: Method, Institutional Change, and the Manufacture of Drugs and Medication in Late Colonial India 67
7. Chapter 5. Health and Medicine in British India and Dutch Indies: A Comparative Study 78
8. Chapter 6. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Politics of "Traditional" Indian Medicine for HIV/ AIDS 88
9. Chapter 7. Mapping Science and Nation in China 107
10. Chapter 8. Sanskrit Gynecologies in Postmodernity: The Commoditization of Indian Medicine in Alternative Medical and New Age Discourses on Women's Health 120
11. Chapter 9. China Reconstructs: Cosmetic Surgery and Nationalism in the Reform Era 132
12. Notes 151
13. References 163
14. CONTRIBUTORS 177
15. Index 181
16. Acknowledgments 189