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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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1 Kill or Cure: week 4 South Asia Interactions between ‘English Medicine’ and Indigenous Medical Practices Lecturer: David Hardiman

2 India under the East India Company 1756-1859

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9 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).

10 Aryurveda The 3 humors Practitioners: Vaids

11 Unani Tibb The Four Humors Practitioners: Hakims

12 Unani Tibb: taking the pulse

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15 Healing shrines

16 Exorcist – the Dangs, Gujarat

17 Ms. S. was mentally affected by witchcraft power - received baptism.

18 A Bengali Daktar’s Practice 1874

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21 Unqualified ‘daktar’ gives injection

22 A daktar’s clinic

23 The revival of Ayurveda and Unani Tibb

24 Standardisation of indigenous medicines

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27 Ayurvedic medical tourism - Kerala

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