Leprosy in colonial South India: medicine and confinement/ (Record no. 149707)
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| fixed length control field | 00354nam a2200121Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781349425303 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 1349425303 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 614.5460954 |
| Item number | BUC/L |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Buckingham, Jane. |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Leprosy in colonial South India: medicine and confinement/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Jane Buckingham. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Palgrave MacMillan, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2002. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 236 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Acknowledgements <br/><br/>List of Abbreviations <br/><br/>Introduction <br/><br/>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 --<br/>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 --<br/>3. Colonial Medicine in the Indigenous Context. The indigenous medical context. The relationship between indigenous and European medical systems --<br/>4. Leprosy Treatment: Indigenous and British Approaches. Remedies. Indigenous borrowing from British medicine. Patient resistance --<br/>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' --<br/>6. The Politics of Leprosy Control. Introduction. Indian government initiative in treatment trials. Local medical control. Disease theory and sanitary politics --<br/>7. Confining Leprosy Sufferers: the Lepers Act. The 1889 Leprosy Bill. The Leprosy Commission's Report. The 1896 Leprosy Bill. The 1898 Lepers Act.<br/><br/>Conclusion <br/><br/>Notes <br/><br/>Biographies <br/><br/>Bibliography <br/><br/>Index |
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| Keyword | India |
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| Keyword | Leprosy |
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| Keyword | Medicine |
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| Keyword | Public health--Political aspects |
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| Keyword | Imperialism--Health aspects |
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| Keyword | Leprosy--Government policy |
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| Keyword | Leprosy--Social aspects |
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| Keyword | British Occupation of India (1765-1947) |
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| Koha item type | General Books |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 614.5460954 BUC/L | P04370 | 28/08/2016 | General Books |