Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement - Rilegato

Buckingham, Jane

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0333926226 ISBN 13: 9780333926222

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Riassunto

Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of a disease, it is also a history of colonial power in 19th-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers. The book offers a detailed examination of the contribution of leprosy treatment and legislative measures to negotiated relationships between indigenous and British medicine and the colonial impact on indigenous class formation, while asserting the agency of the poor and vagrant leprous classes in their own history.

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L'autore

Jane Buckingham is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Contenuti

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0333926226
• ISBN 13: 9780333926222
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 236