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1. Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States

   1850-1950

   By Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati, T.V. Sekher

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   The book maps developments in public health, the emergence of specialised medical institutions, the influence of western medicine on indigenous medical communities (and their patients) and the interaction between them. Two comparatively large states (Mysore and Travancore), considered ‘progressive’...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. India's Princely States

   People, Princes and Colonialism

   Edited by Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military...

   Published April 7th 2010 by Routledge
3. Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal

   Social and Cultural Histories of Norms and Normativity

   By Waltraud Ernst

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the...

   Published August 5th 2007 by Routledge
4. Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

   Edited by Waltraud Ernst

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current...

   Published February 6th 2002 by Routledge
5. Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960

   Edited by Waltraud Ernst, Bernard Harris

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration,...

   Published June 9th 1999 by Routledge