SEP 2026: Medicine and Empire in Goa from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century (Cristiana Bastos)
Frederick Noronha
Medicine and Empire in Goa from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
From Plant Knowledge to Colonial Biopolitics
Overview
- Editors:
- Presents a multi-disciplinary perspective on the production, use, and circulation of medical knowledge in colonial Goa
- Breaks with traditional studies on medicine and empire by exploring long-term colonial interactions
- Emphasises the lived experience of negotiating medical care under empire
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
About this book
This edited volume investigates the shaping, suppression, and circulation of medical and pharmaceutical knowledge in colonial Goa, situating these processes within the region’s political, religious, and commercial networks. Spanning from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, the chapters trace developments from Garcia de Orta’s engagement with local plant-based knowledge to the compilation of herbaria used as medical vademecums across Jesuit global networks. The collection also explores the hybrid medical practices in eighteenth-century Goan hospitals, the institutionalisation of medical education, and the contested legitimacy of healing practices during epidemics such as smallpox, plague, and cholera. Rather than framing colonial medicine as a binary between European and Asian systems under a sanitary regime, the contributors draw on earlier historical layers to illuminate the complexities of medical knowledge production in nineteenth-century Goa.
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Editors and Affiliations
Institute of Social Sciences , University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Cristiana Bastos
About the editor
Cristiana Bastos is Professor of Anthropology in the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests include health, colonialism, plants, plantation societies, labour, and race.
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