Maladies, Preventives and Curatives: Debates in Public Health in India
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1st ed.
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8185229953
Length
x+173p., Figures; Tables; Index; 25cm.
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The papers in this volume, chronologically divided into two parts, move from a discussion of the colonial history of public health in India to the challenges confronting public health in the current socio-political context. In the colonial period, the state of health of their Indian subjects weighted less with the British rulers than the state of the revenues they could extract from their Indian possessions. This, despite the concern of European medical ...
