
Michael Worboys
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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 ...