Medical Maladies: Stories of Disease and Cure From Indian Languages (F.B)

Author: Edited by D. Balasubramanian

ISBN: 9789391125752

Price: Rs. 474.05 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition

Book Overview

This pioneering anthology brings together 19 fascinating short stories, translated into English from Indian languages—Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Kashmiri, Marathi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia, and Urdu— demonstrating a spectrum of medical cultures in India. The thought provoking and compelling stories address a wide array of themes and topics, including the individual and social crises during epidemics, medical pluralism, patient care, medical paternalism, disease-mongering, medicalization, and medical ethics, amongst others. Delineating a range of diseases, healing, and allied concerns in India, the stories depict modern medical professionals such as doctors, nurses, surgeons, as well as traditional practitioners such as vaids, hakims, kavirajs, quacks, and folk healers. A few of the stories also engage with aspects of women’s mental and physical health, including pregnancy, childbirth, abortion, and depression. Ranging from the early 20th century stories to contemporary ones, the compendium includes pieces by canonical authors such as Tagore, Premchand, and Manto, medical practitioners such as Rashid Jahan and Shirin Shrikant Valavade, and contemporary writer such as Annie Zaidi and Jeelani Bano. The anthology garners refreshing insights and offers a new understanding of the interrelationship of literature and medicine.

Browse this title within our Children's Books collection. Edition details: English, 288 pages. Reference ISBN: 9789391125752.

About the Author

Prof. D. Balasubramanian is an eminent biophysical chemist, Director of Research at L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, and Padma Shri awardee.

Why Readers Pick This Edition

• You’ll love this book for how powerfully it blends storytelling with social insight. These translated short stories open a rare window into India’s diverse medical worlds—where science, tradition, ethics, and emotion collide. As you read, you’ll encounter doctors and healers, patients and families, all navigating illness, care, and belief. It’s deeply human, quietly unsettling, and incredibly enriching—perfect if you enjoy literature that makes you think, feel, and see society anew.
• Published by Niyogi Books.
• Language: English.
• Page count: 288.

Catalog Description

This pioneering anthology brings together 19 fascinating short stories, translated into English from Indian languages—Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Kashmiri, Marathi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia, and Urdu— demonstrating a spectrum of medical cultures in India. The thought provoking and compelling stories address a wide array of themes and topics, including the individual and social crises during epidemics, medical pluralism, patient care, medical paternalism, disease-mongering, medicalization, and medical ethics, amongst others. Delineating a range of diseases, healing, and allied concerns in India, the stories depict modern medical professionals such as doctors, nurses, surgeons, as well as...

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