Leprosy in Colonial South India

Medicine and Confinement

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

AvJ. Buckingham

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Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-01-01
Mått140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt322 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor236
Upplaga2002
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349425303

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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Indian and British Concepts of Leprosy and of the Leprosy Sufferer Patient or Prisoner? Leprosy Sufferers in British Institutional Care Colonial Medicine in the Indigenous Context Leprosy Treatment: Indigenous and British Approaches Leprosy Research and the Development of Colonial Medical Science The Politics of Leprosy Control Confining Leprosy Sufferers: The Lepers Act Conclusion Notes Biographies Bibliography Index