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15104081

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
57 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-4-22
pubmed:abstractText
This article is concerned with the development of early nineteenth-century Western medicine and psychiatry in relation to religion and magic during British colonial rule in India. The case of mesmerism is taken to illustrate that 'colonial medicine/psychiatry in India' itself was plural in nature, being made up of a variety of different, at times competing, strands. Religious connotations and references to spiritual enlightenment increasingly posed a peculiar problem to emerging Western science-based medicine in the nineteenth century. Mesmerism was met with as much hostility by an emerging Western medical orthodoxy as indigenous medical systems. The affiliation of mesmerism with Indian magical practices and religious customs contributed to its marginalization - despite or, rather, because of its popularity among members of the Indian nobility and middle classes, Indian patients and practitioners. The case of mesmerism also shows that awareness both of the domineering power of a gradually emerging medical 'imagined' mainstream and an analysis of the complex challenges faces by heterodoxy (as much as by orthodoxy) facilitate a more critical understanding of the development of colonial medicine and psychiatry in the East as well as, arguably, of medicine and psychiatry in Britain itself.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
Q
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0957-154X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
15
pubmed:owner
HMD
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
57-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Colonial psychiatry, magic and religion. The case of mesmerism in British India.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Southampton. wer@soton.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Historical Article