… asked for the constitution of a civil medical service of India, and to thus "raise a scientific
medical profession in India by throwing open fields for medical and scientific works to the best …

… The ninth session of the congress asked for the constitution of a Civil Medical Service of
India, to ‘raise a scientific medical profession in India by throwing open fields for medical and …

… medical encounter. The present book is an attempt to move away from these binaries in case
of medical encounters in colonial India. … is a need to understand the medical interaction in a …

… Even at the apogee of empire in the twentieth century, the British presence in India never
exceeded a few tens of thousands of civilians, a number at all times too small not to rely heavily …

… progression in British medical works relating to India produced … conditions discussed by
British physicians in India (with the … experience or from medical encounters with other parts of …

… ’s edited Medical Encounters in British India,has articles by several eminent scholars writing
on the subject of medical encounters between the metropole and British India. Centres of …

… -century India's most accomplished women came to Britain seeking a medical degree but did
… some historically specific colonial encounters "at home," readers of British history can more …

… wider political questions around India's position in the empire. … associated with India and
focus instead on ordinary lives. … the British Library and Penny Brook, lead curator of India Office …

… knowledge about the body and the knowledge of the body that have historically existed in
parts of the world (and the mind) colonized by the West (here, the reference is to India) have …

… He thought that being offered medical care equal to that of their British counterparts might …
, which might have undermined the prestige of British rule in India. For this reason, Lawrence, …