01395nam a22002297a 4500 20251029152002.0 251010b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789384092986 International Book Distributors Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 122012 20/09/2025 362.11 CHA Chatterjee, Srilata. Western Medicine and Colonial Society : hospitals of calcutta, c.1757-1860. / Srilata Chatterjee. Delhi : Primus Books , 2017. xiii, 318p. : 24cm. 836.50 Over the past few decades, academic research on the medical history of colonial India has concentrated mostly on the public health policy of the colonial government and the ingenious contrivance between colonial power and medicine in the formation of an empire, while neglecting the history of hospitals in the colonies. The present work attempts to bridge this gap by tracing the trajectories of hospital formation for the indigenous population, beginning with the early military and European hospitals. The book also focuses on the growth of dispensaries in the suburbs of Calcutta, as well as speciality hospitals in the city. Social conditions. History. Calcutta History. Srilata Chatterjee BOOK 66445 66445 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-10-10 International Book Distributors 836.50 0 362.11 CHA 31140 2025-10-10 12:21:48 2025-10-10 BOOK