Contesting colonial authority : medicine and indigenous responses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India / edited by Poonam Bala.

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2012], ©2012.

xvii, 157 pages ; 24 cm

Nationalizing medicine / Poonam Bala -- Teaching European medicine in Colonial Goa / Cristiana Bastos -- Ayurvedic pharmaceuticals / Madhulika Banerjee -- Corporal contestations / Shrimoy Roy Chaudhary -- Colonial medicine and elite nationalist responses in India / Shamshad Khan -- Colonial compassion and political calculation / Sean Lang -- Educating lady doctors in Colonial Burma / Atsuko Naono -- Unani medical culture / Neshat Quaiser -- Malarial fever in nineteent-century Bengal / Arabinda Samanta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.