Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I: The Multiplicity of Domains; 1: Probing History of Medicine and Public Health in India: A Study of Encounters at Multiple Sites (Deepak Kumar); 2: Anatomical Knowledge and East-West Exchange (Jayanta Bhattacharya); 3: From Bazaar Medicine to Hospital Medicine: Calomel, India and the British Empire,c.1750-c.1800 (Mark Harrison); 4: Dietetics, Mimesis, and Alterity: Food in Asian Medical Traditions and East-West Exchanges (David Arnold); 5: Health and Sovereignty in the New Asia: The Decline and Rise of the Tropics (Sunil Amrith); Section II: The Differing Perceptions; 6: Cholera, Heroic Therapies, and Riseof Homoeopathy in Nineteenth-century India (Dhrub Kumar Singh); 7: Knowing Health and Medicine: A Case Study of Benares, c.1900-1950 (Madhuri Sharma); 8: Healing the Sick and the Destitute: Protestant Missionaries and Medical Missions in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Travancore (Raj Sekhar Basu); 9: A Mixed Record: Malaria Control in Bombay Presidency, 1900-1935 (MridulaRamanna); 10: Vulnerability of Women to Bacillus: Myths and Reality in India (1890-1950) (Bikramaditya K. Choudhary); 11: Negotiating Subalternity: Social Construction of Tuberculosis in Colonial and Post-colonial India (Arabinda Samanta); 12: 'Delivering the "Murdered Child": Infanticide, Abortion andContraception in Colonial India' (Indira Chowdhury); Select Bibliography; Note on Contributors.