The practice of folk medicine by the indigenous people of Sundarbans: A historical analysis

IF 0.1 Q4 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Rup Kumar Barman
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For a couple of decades, the ‘history of science, technology, and medicine’ (HISTEM) has received widespread attention from scholars worldwide. Historians have paid adequate attention to exploring India's scientific and technological contributions to the global history of science. Simultaneously, the “codified” and “institutionalized” forms of certain medicinal practices and health-seeking traditions of the Indian subcontinent have achieved international recognition for their medicinal values to maintain good health. However, there are many indigenous (tribal/autochthonous/adivashis/marginal) communities whose medicinal practices have remained beyond the purview of HISTEM. In such a background, an intensive study has been undertaken in the context of Indian Sundarbans located in the southern part of North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas Districts of West Bengal. Here, the indigenous communities have developed and preserved their medicinal practices, preventive food habits, and folk culture with their long experience of interactions with the available natural elements. This project thus seeks to construct a brief history of diseases, medicinal practices, inheritance and transmission of medicinal knowledge, and the socioeconomic background of the indigenous healers and retailers of medicine of Indian Sundarbans.

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孙德尔本斯土著人的民间医学实践:历史分析
几十年来,“科学、技术和医学史”(HISTEM)受到了世界各地学者的广泛关注。历史学家对探索印度对全球科学史的科学和技术贡献给予了足够的关注。与此同时,印度次大陆某些医疗做法和求医传统的"编纂"和"制度化"形式因其对保持健康的医疗价值而获得国际承认。然而,有许多土著(部落/土著/土著/边缘)社区的医疗实践仍然超出了HISTEM的范围。在这样的背景下,对位于西孟加拉邦北24帕尔加纳斯和南24帕尔加纳斯地区南部的印度孙德尔本斯进行了深入研究。在这里,土著社区发展并保存了他们的医疗实践、预防饮食习惯和民间文化,以及他们与现有自然因素相互作用的长期经验。因此,本项目旨在建立一个关于疾病、医疗实践、医学知识的继承和传播以及印度孙德尔本斯土著治疗师和药品零售商的社会经济背景的简史。
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