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Arnold, David, 1946-

Colonizing the Body : State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India / David Arnold. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. - xii, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.



Contents:
List of Figures and Tables;
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations;
INTRODUCTION;
1. OCCIDENTAL THERAPEUTICS AND ORIENTAL BODIES;
2. COLONIAL ENCLAVES: THE ARMY AND THE JAILS;
3. SMALLPOX: THE BODY OF THE GODDESS;
4. CHOLERA: DISEASE AS DISORDER;
5. PLAGUE: ASSAULT ON THE BODY;
6. HEALTH AND HEGEMONY;
CONCLUSION;
Notes;
Glossary;
Bibliography;
Index

ISBN: 9780520082953 0520081242 (alk. paper) 0520082958 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 92025623

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medicine--History--India--19th Century.
Medicine--Political Aspects--India.
Social Medicine--History.--India
Public Health--Political aspects--India.
Smallpox--Government policy--India.
Cholera--Government policy--India.
Plague--Government policy--India.
Imperialism.

LC Class. No.: R606 / .A75 1993

Dewey Class. No.: 362.10954 ARN