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Offers an analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India that 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.

Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION

1. OCCIDENTAL THERAPEUTICS AND ORIENTAL BODIES
2. COLONIAL ENCLAVES: THE ARMY AND THE JAILS
3. SMALLPOX: THE BODY OF THE GODDESS
4. CHOLERA: DISEASE AS DISORDER
5. PLAGUE: ASSAULT ON THE BODY
6. HEALTH AND HEGEMONY
CONCLUSION

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Colonizing the Body

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/08/1993
      ISBN13: 9780520082953, 978-0520082953
      ISBN10: 0520082958
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers an analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India that 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.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures and Tables
      Acknowledgments
      List of Abbreviations

      INTRODUCTION

      1. OCCIDENTAL THERAPEUTICS AND ORIENTAL BODIES
      2. COLONIAL ENCLAVES: THE ARMY AND THE JAILS
      3. SMALLPOX: THE BODY OF THE GODDESS
      4. CHOLERA: DISEASE AS DISORDER
      5. PLAGUE: ASSAULT ON THE BODY
      6. HEALTH AND HEGEMONY
      CONCLUSION

      Notes
      Glossary
      Bibliography
      Index

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