Disparate Remedies : : making medicines in modern India / / Nandini Bhattacharya.

"At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in the country between 1870 and 1960. The book begins by discussing the expansion of medical...

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Place / Publishing House:Montreal : : McGill-Queen's University Press (mqup),, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Intoxicating histories, 7
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Colonial Medicine Chest--The Bazaar and the Indigenous Pharmaceuticals Industry--For a Pharmacopeia for India--The Promises and Forfeiture of Import Substitution--Adulteration and the Medical Market--Disparate Dispensing: Pharmacy in the Eclectic Market--Drugs for the Nation.