Public Health in British India
Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859–1914
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Part of Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
- Author: Mark Harrison, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London
- Date Published: March 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521466882
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After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes towards India and its inhabitants, and the way in which these were reflected in medical literature and medical policy; the fate of public health at local level under Indian control; and the effects of quarantine on colonial trade and the pilgrimage to Mecca. The book places medicine within the context of debates about the government of India, and relations between rulers and ruled. In emphasising the active role of the indigenous population, and in its range of material, it differs significantly from most other work conducted in this subject area.
Read more- An original and much-needed account of public health in 'British' India in its full political and cultural context
- Relevant to the study of the history of developing countries in general and to Third World studies
- Reflects the full relevance of public health issues to development policies and the politics of colonialism
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- Date Published: March 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521466882
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- contains: 21 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The Indian medical service
2. Tropical hygiene: disease theory and prevention in nineteenth-century India
3. The foundations of public health in India: crisis and constraint
4. Cholera theory and sanitary policy
5. Quarantine, pilgrimage, and colonial trade: India 1866–1900
6. Professional visions and political realities, 1896–1914
7. Public health and local self-government
8. The politics of health in Calcutta, 1876–1899
Conclusion.
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