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Colonizing the body : state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, David, 1946- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--History--19th century--India.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Political aspects--India.
- Social medicine--History--India.
- Social medicine.
- Public health--Political aspects--India.
- Public health.
- Smallpox--Government policy--India.
- Smallpox.
- Cholera--Government policy--India.
- Cholera.
- Plague--Government policy--India.
- Plague.
- Imperialism.
- History, 19th Century.
- Social Medicine.
- Colonialism.
- Public Health.
- Health Policy.
- Politics.
- Yersinia Infections.
- Poxviridae Infections.
- Public Policy.
- Health.
- Political Systems.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Social Sciences.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Vibrio Infections.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Social Control Policies.
- Health Occupations.
- DNA Virus Infections.
- Population Characteristics.
- History.
- Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections.
- Enterobacteriaceae Infections.
- Occupations.
- Bacterial Infections.
- Social Control, Formal.
- Policy.
- Virus Diseases.
- Humanities.
- Health Care Economics and Organizations.
- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses.
- Sociology.
- Disease.
- Medical Subjects:
- History, 19th Century.
- Plague.
- Smallpox.
- Social Medicine.
- Colonialism.
- Public Health.
- Health Policy.
- Cholera.
- Politics.
- Yersinia Infections.
- Poxviridae Infections.
- Public Policy.
- Health.
- Political Systems.
- Medicine.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Social Sciences.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Vibrio Infections.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Social Control Policies.
- Health Occupations.
- DNA Virus Infections.
- Population Characteristics.
- History.
- Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections.
- Enterobacteriaceae Infections.
- Occupations.
- Bacterial Infections.
- Social Control, Formal.
- Policy.
- Virus Diseases.
- Humanities.
- Health Care Economics and Organizations.
- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses.
- Sociology.
- Disease.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1993
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic diseases-smallpox, cholera, and plague-Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions.By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Occidental Therapeutics and Oriental Bodies
- 2 Colonial Enclaves: The Army and the Jails
- 3 Smallpox: The Body of the Goddess
- 4 Cholera: Disease as Disorder
- 5 Plague: Assault on the Body
- 6 Health and Hegemony
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-520-91392-2
- 0-585-10144-2
- OCLC:
- 1414457569
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