BA Südasienkunde/South Asian Studies (EW: OSW.05746.01; HA: OSW.05745.01; RM: OSW.05742.01)
BA Interkulturelle Südasienkunde (EW: OSW.05746.01; HA: OSW.05745.01; RM: OSW.05742.01)
MA Südasienkunde/South Asian Studies (RV: OSW.05957.01; SE: OSW.05960.01; VH: OSW.05958.01)
Verwendbarkeit in anderen Studienprogrammen gemäß Vorgaben des jeweiligen Studienprogramms
This course introduces students to key themes and approaches in placing the development of medical knowledge within a socio-cultural context. In understanding the relevance of social concepts to history of medicine, thus, the course will also explore the changing nature of medical practices, people’s perceptions of disease, health and illness under colonial contexts and how these were continued, or redefined or shaped under the rubric of postcolonial structures as they exist today. In particular, these new understandings will uncover the legacy of colonialism that created new identities, new institutions and how these are understood as sites of historiographic changes in specific social and cultural contexts. The main emphasis will be on locating these within the paradigm of plural medical systems and Yoga.
The course will enable students to understand various approaches and analytic frameworks within which to analyse the social and cultural forces that influence the medical profession, and the processes by which social meanings of disease change in historical as well as in contemporary perspectives.
