JNU
Department of History, University of Warwick, and Centre for Social
Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, present
Science, Technology and Medicine in India:
The Problem of Poverty
Wolfson Research Exchange
University Library
University of Warwick
4-5 October 2012
Thursday 4 October
10AM
Welcome, introductions, tea and coffee
Session 1
Chair: Sarah Hodges (Warwick)
10.30-11.30
Shirin Rai (Warwick)
Depletion: Measuring the costs of social reproduction
11.40-12.40
Shirin Rai (Warwick)
Holding property in labour and reproduction: The case of surrogacy
Session 2
2-3
3-4
LUNCH (for speakers)
Chair: Mohan Rao (JNU)
Sarah Jane Bodell (Warwick)
Partition and the Punjab:
Medical missionaries and shifting paradigms of medicine
Rebecca Williams (Warwick)
Surveying the nation: Nation-building, population control and the production
of demographic knowledge in 1950s India
Coffee
4.30-5.30
Aprajita Sarcar (JNU)
Understanding the role of the small family in the first Masterplan of Delhi,
1962
Dinner (for speakers) Gusto, Arts Centre, 6.30PM
Friday 5 October
10AM
Welcome (back), summing up and looking ahead, tea and coffee
Session 1
10.30-11.30
Chair: Rebecca Williams (Warwick)
Smitha Nair and Rajesh K (JNU)
Conversing contraceptives: Exploring technology within the women’s
movement in India
11.40-12.40
Rohini Kandhari (JNU)
Stem cell research in India: Leveraging techno-science for global prominence
LUNCH for speakers
Session 2
2-3
Chair: TBC
Rama Baru (JNU)
Commercialisation and the poverty of public health services in India
3-4
Sarah Hodges (Warwick)
Madras and the corporate hospital, 1980-2000
4-5
Orla Mulrooney (Warwick)
Incredible !ndia – History of medical tourism to high tech hospitals
Made possible by funds from the British Academy International Partnership Scheme
(South Asia)