| Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Buckingham, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349425303 ISBN-13: 9781349425303 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Medical | History - Medical | Infectious Diseases |
| Dewey: 614.546 |
| Lexile Measure: 1730 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.71 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India. Leprosy in Colonial South India 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. |