Event Description
This event will discuss the public cultures of medicine in colonial India. In late nineteenth century, laboratory-produced drugs competed with traditional remedies through side-by-side production of Western and Indian drugs by pharmaceutical companies. The emergent middle classes, the creation of a public sphere, and nationalist politics transformed the medical culture of modern India. Nandini Bhattacharya will demonstrate how disparate therapies were sustained through the tropes of purity or adulteration, potency or lack of it, and epistemic heritage through the struggle for an official Indian Pharmacopeia in colonial India.
Event Speaker
Nandini Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston
Event Information
Free and open to the public. No registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage. Hosted by the South Asia Institute at Columbia University.
