Leprosy in colonial south India : medicine and confinement /
Annotation 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 contribut...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave,
[2002]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Annotation 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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| Item Description: | Notes: (pages 197-218). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1403932735 9781403932730 9780333926222 0333926226 1280223294 9781280223297 9781349425303 1349425303 |