Historical Bibliography Updated: May 15, 2020
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
Publication Details
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993 CE.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
Thematic Classifications
COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › IndiaEPIDEMIOLOGY › History of EpidemiologyGeography of Disease / Health Geography › History of Geography of DiseaseINDIA, Practice of Medicine in › History of Practice of Medicine in IndiaINFECTIOUS DISEASE › CholeraINFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of SmallpoxINFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Flea-Borne Diseases › Plague (transmitted by fleas from rats to humans) › Plague, History ofPUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health
| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #8811 |
| Permanent Link | https://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/10989 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | colonizing-the-body-state-medicine-and-epidemic-disease-in-nineteenthcentury-india |
Geographic Context
Publication place: Berkeley, CA