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Kill or Cure: week 4 South Asia Interactions between ‘English Medicine’ and Indigenous Medical Practices Lecturer: David Hardiman
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India under the East India Company 1756-1859
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Western medicine was known in India as ‘allopathy’ or ‘English medicine’ – in Hindi: ‘Angreji dava’. Indians who practised ‘English medicine’ were known as daktars and their practice ‘doctory’ (daktari).
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Aryurveda The 3 humors Practitioners: Vaids
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Unani Tibb The Four Humors Practitioners: Hakims
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Unani Tibb: taking the pulse
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Healing shrines
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Exorcist – the Dangs, Gujarat
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Ms. S. was mentally affected by witchcraft power - received baptism.
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A Bengali Daktar’s Practice 1874
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Unqualified ‘daktar’ gives injection
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A daktar’s clinic
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The revival of Ayurveda and Unani Tibb
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Standardisation of indigenous medicines
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Ayurvedic medical tourism - Kerala
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