Book Reviews : BISWAMOY PATI and MARK HARRISON, eds, Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspec tives on Colonial India, Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 2001, pp. 408. ARABINDA SAMANTA, Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal, 1820-1939, Kolkata, Firma KLM, 2002, pp. 271

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Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2003-12-01 DOI:10.1177/001946460304000405

Satadru Sen

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Both of these volumes are significant contributions to the rapidly growing body of scholarship on the history of medicine in modern South Asia. They go well beyond the ’enclavist’ approach pioneered by David Arnold, and in the process, broaden and complicate the concept of ’colonial medicine’. The contributors to the Pati-Harrison volume, and Arabinda Samanta in particular, explore those medical engagements that took place outside the now familiar pockets of cantonments, civil lines and penal colonies. More occasionally, they investigate encounters in which colonial agencies other than the state played a central role. In their introductory essay to what is a coherent and well-produced edited vol-

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书评:BISWAMOY PATI和MARK HARRISON主编，《健康、医学和帝国:殖民印度的视角》，海得拉巴，东方朗曼出版社，2001年，第408页。ARABINDA SAMANTA，孟加拉殖民地的疟疾热，1820-1939，加尔各答，Firma KLM, 2002，第271页

这两卷都是对现代南亚医学史快速增长的学术机构的重大贡献。它们远远超出了David Arnold开创的“殖民主义”方法，并在此过程中扩大和复杂化了“殖民医学”的概念。帕蒂-哈里森卷的撰稿人，尤其是阿拉比达·萨曼塔，探讨了那些发生在现在熟悉的营地、民事战线和罪犯聚居地之外的医疗冲突。更偶然的是，他们调查了殖民机构而不是国家发挥核心作用的遭遇。在他们的介绍性文章什么是连贯和精心制作编辑卷

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期刊介绍： For over 35 years, The Indian Economic and Social History Review has been a meeting ground for scholars whose concerns span diverse cultural and political themes with a bearing on social and economic history. The Indian Economic and Social History Review is the foremost journal devoted to the study of the social and economic history of India, and South Asia more generally. The journal publishes articles with a wider coverage, referring to other Asian countries but of interest to those working on Indian history. Its articles cover India"s South Asian neighbours so as to provide a comparative perspective.