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Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement

By Jane Buckingham

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0333926226, 9780333926222, 9781403932730
Open Library ID
OL9623744M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
677 kB (692959 bytes)
Pages
250\249
Topic
Medicine
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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