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Leprosy in colonial South India: medicine and confinement/ Jane Buckingham.

By: Buckingham, JaneMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002Description: xi, 236 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781349425303; 1349425303 Subject(s): India | Leprosy | Medicine | Public health--Political aspects | Imperialism--Health aspects | Leprosy--Government policy | Leprosy--Social aspects | British Occupation of India (1765-1947)DDC classification: 614.5460954

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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

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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

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