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Dhawan, Ayushi (2017)

Doctors caught between the two Worlds: On the reception of South and East Asian Medicine in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1800

Research master thesis | History (research) (MA)

This thesis at one level examines how and why were the European doctors as ‘outsiders’ able to make an impression on the aristocratic elites in the Mughal court? And at another level, it investigates the direct relationship between cross-cultural medical favors and the advantages doctors gained by offering their services. Did such intercessions by doctors’ yield only the much-desired trade concessions like farmans to the trading companies in which these medical men were employed and represented as ambassadors in the courts or something more especially in terms of monetary gains such as money, an enviable position at the court or other benefits?

Doctors

South Asia

East Asia

Medicine

Author

Dhawan, Ayushi

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Colonial and Global History

Supervisors

Gommans, Jos

ECTS Credits

40

Language

en