A body can also be read as a site for the production and maintenance of social power. In colonial India, western biomedicine often acted to reinforce the reason/nature split and made manifestations in dualistic divisions between mind/body, and men/women. With the advent of the 'masculine' western biomedicine, the indigenous population lost the authority and autonomy over their self-knowledge and social power of their bodies. Thus, Homoeopathy found a space in the spiritual discourse of Indian nationalism as a ‘feminine’ element. This paper is an attempt to analyse how the rhetoric on homoeopathy was effectively employed to redress the grievances of masculinity in health care unleashed by the British state. The study lays stress on power imbalance within the practitioner/patient relationship, the exclusion of social concerns from the biomedical model, and the trivialisation of knowledge within the clinical encounters.

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理解殖民男性气质和本土身体：重读顺势疗法作为女性主义医学形式的话语

身体也可以被解读为生产和维持社会权力的场所。在殖民时期的印度，西方生物医学经常加强理性/自然的分裂，并表现为身心和男性/女性之间的二元分裂。随着“男性化”西方生物医学的出现，土著居民失去了对其身体的自我认识和社会力量的权威和自主权。因此，顺势疗法在印度民族主义的精神话语中找到了作为“女性”元素的空间。本文试图分析如何有效地利用顺势疗法的修辞来纠正英国政府在医疗保健中对男性气质的不满。该研究强调从业者/患者关系中的权力失衡，