Research Associate

3 weeks ago


Québec, Canada McGill University Full time

Please refer to the

job aid for instructions on how to apply.

Hortus indicus malabaricus and the development of Eurasian medicine and pharmacology in the Netherlands and India, 17th-21st centuries.

Main duties and responsibilities:
- Identifying and analysing systematically the historical literature on the development of medicine and pharmacology in the seventeenth-century Netherlands.- Studying digitized herbarium collections available online at the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden. SeeIdentifying and analysing the literature on “indigenous” medicine in Malabar (modern state of Kerala, India) held in archives and libraries (some of it digitized), 19th century—present.- Interviewing vaidyans (Ayurvedic practitioners) of different castes, at different institutions in Kerala.- Interviewing activists from the Ezhava community, who are pressing for the international recognition of the medical information contained in the volumes of the Hortus as the cultural heritage of the Ezhavas of Kerala. This project may be the first to examine the role of indigenous medical knowledge as part of caste and national identity formation in India.- Authoring two research papers, the first, examining the drawings and texts in the twelve-volume Hortus indicus malabaricus, to tease out the variety of medical knowledges contained in them. The second examining the place of the Hortus indicus malabaricus in the public history of Kerala.- Organizing an international conference on the Hortus indicus malabaricus and the botanical and medical knowledge contained in it; as well as editing and publishing a collected volume based on the papers presented at the conference.

Qualifications:
Doctoral degree or equivalent degree, and at least five (5) years of research experience.
Hourly Salary:

$28.44
- Hours per Week:

- 5 (Part time)
- Location:

- Peel 3647
- Supervisor:

- Professor
- Position Start Date:

- 2023-01-01
- Position End Date:

- 2023-12-31
- Deadline to Apply:

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