2015
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2015.31
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Poonam Bala (ed.), Medicine and Colonialism: Historical Perspectives in India and South Africa (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014), pp. 225, £60.00, hardback, ISBN: 9781848934658.

Abstract: This collection of essays contributes significantly to our understanding of the process of colonialism in India and South Africa. Though not meant to be a comparative study, parallels of immense importance can be drawn in the context of medical intervention by the colonialists into the indigenous societies and the kind of interaction and engagement that followed. From the quite recent occurrence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa, the collection moves back and forth in time and has a wide range of covera… Show more

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