Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India Volume 7

by 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 consumerism in late nineteenth-century India when British-owned firms extended their sales into remote towns. As a result, laboratory-produced drugs competed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228017521
• ISBN13: 9780228017523
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 272 Pages