Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India by Arnold, David

Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520082953)

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Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India by Arnold, David

Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India

$33.95
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India by Arnold, David

Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India

$33.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: David Arnold
ISBN-10: 0520082958
ISBN-13: 9780520082953
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/12/1993
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.93h x 5.98w x 0.80d
By David Arnold
By David Arnold
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David Arnold is Professor of South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His recent books include Famine (1989).

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