Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940 Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk
Description
Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.
Keywords
HistoryHistoriographyScienceWorldPolitical ScienceImperialismSocial HistoryAsiaColonialism & Post-Colonialism
2012Book
Author(s)Sandhya L. Polu
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230354609
LanguageEnglish
