Disease and medicine in india : a historical overview.
Kumar, Deepak.
Disease and medicine in india : a historical overview. /Deepak Kumar. - New Delhi : Tulika books , 2001. - xxi, 307p. : 24cm.
The 61st session of the Indian History Congress, held in Kolkata in January, 2001, organized a special panel on the history of health conditions and the progress of medicine in India. The present volume brings together the papers presented at this panel, along with some fresh contributions. The essays comprising this volume, in presenting the history of disease and medicine in ancient, medieval and colonial India, seek to achieve a balance between social constructivism and historical relativism.
8185229511
Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)
Indian History
History of health
Historical relativism
610.954 DIS
Disease and medicine in india : a historical overview. /Deepak Kumar. - New Delhi : Tulika books , 2001. - xxi, 307p. : 24cm.
The 61st session of the Indian History Congress, held in Kolkata in January, 2001, organized a special panel on the history of health conditions and the progress of medicine in India. The present volume brings together the papers presented at this panel, along with some fresh contributions. The essays comprising this volume, in presenting the history of disease and medicine in ancient, medieval and colonial India, seek to achieve a balance between social constructivism and historical relativism.
8185229511
Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)
Indian History
History of health
Historical relativism
610.954 DIS
