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| العنوان: |
Diseases of the Eye: Medical Pluralism at the Tanjore Court in the Early Nineteenth Century. |
| المؤلفون: |
Nair, Savithri Preetha |
| المصدر: |
Social History of Medicine; Aug2012, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p573-588, 16p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
INTEGRATIVE medicine, EYE diseases, OPHTHALMOLOGY, TRADITIONAL medicine, OPHTHALMIC surgery, THERAPEUTICS, HOSPITALS |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
INDIA |
| مستخلص: |
The Tanjore Court in South India under the reign of Raja Serfoji II (1798–1832) offers a rich and hitherto unexamined case for the study of medical pluralism beyond the colonial establishment. ‘Western medicine’ was negotiated and accommodated at the Court under the patronage of the anatomically trained Raja, primarily through the agency of the indigenous practitioners attached to it. This paper is also concerned with a less explored field of medical history, that of ophthalmic therapeutics, including surgery, and on a rarely used historical source, the case narratives. Establishing the identity of the person responsible for a singular collection of ophthalmic case sheets in the Thanjavur Saraswati Mahal Library, it aims to situate this historical material within the larger context of colonial ophthalmologic practice in India in the early nineteenth century as exemplified by the Madras Eye Infirmary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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