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The volume explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. It will be of interest to scholars of history, especially the history of medicine and the history of colonialism and imperialism, sociology, social anthropology, cultural theory, and South Asian Studies, as well as to health workers and NGOs.The book is a must for students of ...
Climates and Constitutions is the first major study of European attitudes towards India's climate and their bearing on imperial expansion. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the accounts of European travellers and a large number of scientific and medical treatises, it makes an original contribution to the environmental and medical history of South Asia. The book examines in detail two interrelated developments: the emergence of modern ideas of race and ...
This collection of essays weaves together several themes related to the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Its focus ranges from analysing Europe’s relationship with India’s indigenous medical systems, to case studies of two mental asylums (in Madras and Lucknow), the location of the leprosy asylum, the technological aspects and social implications of the colonial vaccination policy, and to colonial interventions related specifically to ...
Fractured States is an extraordinarily detailed account of efforts at smallpox control measures in colonial India. Departing from established analytical stereotypes, it seeks to focus on bureaucratic roles and functions in an attempt to understand why smallpox control policies and programmes were not as successful as they should have been. This work gives as much weight to the political, economic and scientific factors affecting the extension of vaccination as to ...