Drugs, consumption, and supply in Asia: the case of cocaine in colonial India, c. 1900 - c. 1930 [0.03%]
药物、消费与供应:以殖民地印度的可卡因为例(约1900-1930)
James H Mills
James H Mills
This article examines the market for cocaine in India during the early twentieth century and the efforts of the colonial state to control it. The British authorities issued regulations to prohibit the drug's use as early as 1900, and yet by...
Of germs, public hygiene, and the healthy body: the making of the medicalizing state in Thailand [0.03%]
谈微生物、公共卫生与健康身体:论泰国的“医学国家”之形成
Davisakd Puaksom
Davisakd Puaksom
The historical study of Western medicine in nineteenth-century Siam has emphasized the dichotomy between Western medicine and traditional Thai medical practice. The former is often represented as a monolith, and the epistemological transfor...
Rethinking the history of medicine in Asia: Hakim Mohammed Said and the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine [0.03%]
亚洲医学史的重构:哈基姆默罕默德赛义德与促进东方医学协会
Joseph S Alter
Joseph S Alter
In 1963 Hakim Mohammed Said took a Pakistani delegation from the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine on a monthlong trip to China to meet with and learn from practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This essay focuses on Sai...