Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India /
Authors: Arnold, David, 1946-
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Social Medicine; Smallpox; Public Health; Politics; Plague; Health Policy; Cholera; History, 19th Century; Social Medicine history; Smallpox history; History, 19th Century.; Cholera history; Cholera Government policy India.; Imperialism; Medicine Political aspects India.; Medicine India History; Plague Government policy India.; Public health Political aspects India.; Smallpox Government policy India.; Social medicine India History.; Public Health legislation.; India
Contents: Introduction -- Occidental therapeutics and oriental bodies -- Colonial enlcaves: the army and the jails -- Smallpox: the body of the goddess -- Cholera: disease as disorder -- Plague: assault on the body -- Health and hegemony