Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India : Family, Market and Homoeopathy (Paperback)

Introduction: 'A growing scandal under British rule': families, market and the vernacular; 1. A heterodoxy between institutions: bureaucracy, print-market and family firms; 2. A family of biographies: colonial lives of a Western heterodoxy; 3. A science in translation: medicine, language, identity; 4. Healing the home: indigeneity, self-help and the Hindu joint family; 5. Colonial law, electoral politics and a homeopathic public; Epilogue: a familiar science.