TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buckingham, Jane.
TI  - Leprosy in colonial South India: medicine and confinement
SN  - 9781349425303
U1  - 614.5460954 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave MacMillan
KW  - India
KW  - Leprosy
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Public health--Political aspects
KW  - Imperialism--Health aspects
KW  - Leprosy--Government policy
KW  - Leprosy--Social aspects
KW  - British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
N1  - 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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