Leprosy in colonial South India: medicine and confinement/
Buckingham, Jane.
Leprosy in colonial South India: medicine and confinement/ Jane Buckingham. - New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. - xi, 236 p. ; 23 cm.
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Indian and British Concepts of Leprosy and of the Leprosy Sufferer. Nineteenth-century indigenous and British understandings of leprosy. British perceptions of the leprosy sufferer in nineteenth-century south India. The position of the leprosy sufferer in Hindu culture --
2. Patient or Prisoner? Leprosy Sufferers in British Institutional Care. Institutions. Leprosy sufferers in institutional care. The nature of the institution. Patient or prisoner? The ambiguity of the leprosy sufferer's status --
3. Colonial Medicine in the Indigenous Context. The indigenous medical context. The relationship between indigenous and European medical systems --
4. Leprosy Treatment: Indigenous and British Approaches. Remedies. Indigenous borrowing from British medicine. Patient resistance --
5. Leprosy Research and the Development of Colonial Medical Science. Introduction. Leprosy research 1800-60. Leprosy research in the 1860s and 1870s. 'In the interests of science and humanity' --
6. The Politics of Leprosy Control. Introduction. Indian government initiative in treatment trials. Local medical control. Disease theory and sanitary politics --
7. Confining Leprosy Sufferers: the Lepers Act. The 1889 Leprosy Bill. The Leprosy Commission's Report. The 1896 Leprosy Bill. The 1898 Lepers Act.
Conclusion
Notes
Biographies
Bibliography
Index
9781349425303 1349425303
India
Leprosy
Medicine
Public health--Political aspects
Imperialism--Health aspects
Leprosy--Government policy
Leprosy--Social aspects
British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
614.5460954 / BUC/L
Leprosy in colonial South India: medicine and confinement/ Jane Buckingham. - New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. - xi, 236 p. ; 23 cm.
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Indian and British Concepts of Leprosy and of the Leprosy Sufferer. Nineteenth-century indigenous and British understandings of leprosy. British perceptions of the leprosy sufferer in nineteenth-century south India. The position of the leprosy sufferer in Hindu culture --
2. Patient or Prisoner? Leprosy Sufferers in British Institutional Care. Institutions. Leprosy sufferers in institutional care. The nature of the institution. Patient or prisoner? The ambiguity of the leprosy sufferer's status --
3. Colonial Medicine in the Indigenous Context. The indigenous medical context. The relationship between indigenous and European medical systems --
4. Leprosy Treatment: Indigenous and British Approaches. Remedies. Indigenous borrowing from British medicine. Patient resistance --
5. Leprosy Research and the Development of Colonial Medical Science. Introduction. Leprosy research 1800-60. Leprosy research in the 1860s and 1870s. 'In the interests of science and humanity' --
6. The Politics of Leprosy Control. Introduction. Indian government initiative in treatment trials. Local medical control. Disease theory and sanitary politics --
7. Confining Leprosy Sufferers: the Lepers Act. The 1889 Leprosy Bill. The Leprosy Commission's Report. The 1896 Leprosy Bill. The 1898 Lepers Act.
Conclusion
Notes
Biographies
Bibliography
Index
9781349425303 1349425303
India
Leprosy
Medicine
Public health--Political aspects
Imperialism--Health aspects
Leprosy--Government policy
Leprosy--Social aspects
British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
614.5460954 / BUC/L