Disparate Remedies Making Medicines in Modern India
At present India is a leading producer, distributer, and consumer of generic medicines. Tracing this development, Disparate Remedies explores the integrated histories of the medical market and industrially manufactured medicines in colonial and postcolonial India, engaging with the cultures of both...
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McGill-Queen's University Press
2023
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed |
| Schriftenreihe: | Intoxicating Histories Series
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India
- The Public in Modern India
- The Public Spheres of Medicine
- State Medicine in Colonial India
- Scientific Medicine and the Public in Colonial India
- Disparate Remedies
- 1 The Colonial Medicine Chest
- The Colonial Medicine Chest
- The Medical Market in Colonial India
- 'European' Drug Houses: Expanding the Medical Market
- Conclusion: New Markets in British India
- 2 The Bazaar and the Indigenous Pharmaceuticals Industry
- The 'Bazaar Market'
- Swadeshi Nationalism and the Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works
- Alembic Chemical Works and Indigenous Enterprise
- Indigenous Drugs Manufacture and 'English' Medicines
- Conclusion: The Pharmacy and the Bazaar
- 3 For a Pharmacopeia for India
- Bazaar Drugs and the Indian Materia Medica
- The Many Pharmacopeias of India
- Towards the Definitive Pharmacopeia
- Impurity and the Problem of Standardization
- The Impossibility of an Indian Pharmacopeia
- Conclusion
- 4 The Promises and Forfeiture of Import Substitution
- The Government Medical Store and the Problem of Substitution
- The Expansion and the Limits of the GMS
- Medicines and the Military-Commercial Enterprise
- The War and the Search for Substitutes: Local Production with Indigenous Drugs
- Medical Discourse and Local Drugs for Local Treatments
- The GMS and the Cultivation of Substitute Medical Drugs: Digitalis
- Conclusion: The Forfeiture of the Promise of Import Substitution
- 5 Adulteration and the Medical Market
- The Ambiguities of Adulteration
- Adulteration and Disparate Dispensing
- Legislating Adulteration
- The Long Half-life of the DEC Report
- 6 Disparate Dispensing: Pharmacy in the Eclectic Market
- The Compounder and the 'Independent Medical Practitioner'
- Prescriptions and Proprietaries: From Compounders to Pharmacists?
- Conclusion: The Compounder and the Fluid Medical Market
- 7 Drugs for the Nation
- Postcolonial Conundrums: Self-Sufficiency and the Biomedicine Gap
- The War and the Pharmaceutical Industry
- The Marginalisation of Botanical and Mineral Drugs
- Self-Sufficiency and the Nation-State
- Indigenous Medicine in Independent India
- Conclusion
- Medical Cultures in Modern India
- Medical Pluralism and the Global South
- Medical Cultures in Modern India
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Unpublished Records
- Periodicals
- Official Reports
- Published Books and Articles
- Unpublished Thesis
- Index