Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-385) and index.

Medicine and orientalism: perspectives on Europe's encounter with Indian medical systems / Mark Harrison -- "Clinical Christianity": the emergence of medical work as a missionary strategy in colonial India, 1800-1914 / Rosemary Fitzgerald -- Colonial lunacy policies and the Madras lunatic asylum in the early nineteen century / Waltraud Ernst -- Indians into asylums: community use of the colonial medical institution in British India, 1857-1880 / James Mills -- Medical developments and patient unrest in the leprosy asylum, 1860 to 1940 / Sanjiv Kumar -- Re-devising jennerian vaccines?: European technologies, Indian innovation, and the control of smallpox in South Asia, 1850-1950 / Sanjoy Bhattacharya -- "Ordering" "Disorder" in a holy city: colonial health interventions in Puri during the nineteenth century / Biswamoy Pati -- "The Palkhi as plague carrier": the Pandharpur fair and the sanitary fixation of the colonial state; British India, 1908-1916 / Manjiri Kamat --

Politics, culture, and colonialism: Unani's debate with doctory / Neshat Quaiser -- The Indian drug industry under the raj, 1860-1920 / Anil Kumar.