Public Health in British India by Mark Harrison
After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes towards India and its inhabitants, and the way in which these were reflected in medical literature and medical policy; the fate of public health at local level under Indian control; and the effects of quarantine on colonial trade and the pilgrimage to Mecca. The book places medicine within the context of debates about the government of India, and relations between rulers and ruled. In emphasising the active role of the indigenous population, and in its range of material, it differs significantly from most other work conducted in this subject area.-
The Science of Woman
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The Renaissance Notion of Woman
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Vital Accounts
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Making Sense of Illness
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Spreading Germs
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Unnatural History
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Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
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The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London
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AIDS and Contemporary History
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Quality and Quantity
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Last Resort
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Mystical Bedlam
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Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy
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The Physical and the Moral
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Bilharzia
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Victorian Lunacy
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International Health Organisations and Movements, 19181939
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The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820
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Science and Empire
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Public Health in Papua New Guinea
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Charitable Knowledge
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Professional and Popular Medicine in France 1770-1830
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Joan Baptista Van Helmont
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Mission and Method
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Morbid Appearances
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Medicine before the Plague
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Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935
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Abortion, Doctors and the Law
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Patients and Practitioners
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Preserve your Love for Science
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Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland
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The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science
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Ordered to Care
"A scholarly, extensively researched, well-annotated, and amply referenced work, and a valuable resource" Choice
"Public Health in British India is a commendable work marked by its substantial scholarly apparatus -- fifty pages of notes, extensive utilization of primary sources, several graphs, and illustrations....this is a work of solid scholarship and should spawn historiographic research in the British colonial context. It is highly recommended for scholars and students of the Indian colonial history of preventive medicine." The Annals of the American Academy
"[Harrison's] arguments are well made and well supported by an impressive range of sources from contemporary medical journals to memoirs...The result is a solid contribution to the history of health and of imperialism." Histoire sociale
"Public Health in British India is a commendable work marked by its substantial scholarly apparatus -- fifty pages of notes, extensive utilization of primary sources, several graphs, and illustrations....this is a work of solid scholarship and should spawn historiographic research in the British colonial context. It is highly recommended for scholars and students of the Indian colonial history of preventive medicine." The Annals of the American Academy
"[Harrison's] arguments are well made and well supported by an impressive range of sources from contemporary medical journals to memoirs...The result is a solid contribution to the history of health and of imperialism." Histoire sociale
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521466882 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521466881 |
| Title | Public Health in British India |
| Author | Mark Harrison |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In The History Of Medicine |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1994-02-25 |
| Number of pages | 348 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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