Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India Contributor(s): Arnold, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520082958 ISBN-13: 9780520082953 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $33.61 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1993 Annotation: 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 British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Medical | Diseases |
Dewey: 362.109 |
LCCN: 92025623 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.98" W x 8.93" (1.09 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Asian |
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Publisher Description: 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 British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule. |