Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940 Contagions of Feeling
Description
This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.
Keywords
HistorySocial HistoryAsiaMedicalFamily & General PracticeSouthPublic HealthModernPractice Management & Reimbursement
2015Book
Author(s)Srirupa Prasad
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137520715
LanguageEnglish
