Colonizing the Body State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India

Name: Colonizing the Body State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India
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ISBN: 9780520082953

ISBN-10: 0520082958

ISBN-13: 9780520082953

Edition: 1994

Authors: David Arnold

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In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers. Focusing on three major epidemic diseases--smallpox, cholera, and plague--Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions. By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/12/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100

David Arnold is professor emeritus of Asian and global history in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Among his numerous works are Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India; Gandhi; and The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856.



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Occidental Therapeutics and Oriental Bodies



Colonial Enclaves: The Army and the Jails



Smallpox: The Body of the Goddess



Cholera: Disease as Disorder



Plague: Assault on the Body



Health and Hegemony


Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index