Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781137009326
ISBN-13 : 1137009322
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Synopsis Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940 by : S. Polu

Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 0230354602
ISBN-13 : 9780230354609
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940 by : S. Polu

Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 0230396437
ISBN-13 : 9780230396432
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940 by : S. Polu

Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.

Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940

Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781137440532
ISBN-13 : 1137440538
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Indian Doctors in Kenya, 1895-1940 by : A. Greenwood

This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940. The story of these important Indian professionals presents a rare social history of an important political minority.

Pandemic India

Pandemic India
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 439
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ISBN-10 : 9780197674550
ISBN-13 : 0197674550
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Pandemic India by : David Arnold

Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to "the pandemic" as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely used-but in reality, it has a long and contested history, centred on South Asia. Pandemic India is an innovative enquiry into the emergence of the idea and changing meaning of pandemics, exploring the pivotal role played by-or assigned to-India over the past 200 years. Using the perspectives of the social historian and the historian of medicine, and a wide range of sources, it explains how and why past pandemics were so closely identified with South Asia; the factors behind outbreaks' exceptional destructiveness in India; responses from society and the state, both during and since the colonial era; and how such collective catastrophes have changed lives and been remembered. Giving a 'long history' to India's current pandemic, the book offers comparisons with earlier epidemics of cholera, plague and influenza. David Arnold assesses the distinctive characteristics and legacies of each episode, tracking the evolution of public health strategies and containment measures. This is a historian's reflection on time as seen through the pandemic prism, and on the ways the past is used--or misused--to serve the present.

Malaria in Colonial South Asia

Malaria in Colonial South Asia
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781000691450
ISBN-13 : 1000691454
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Malaria in Colonial South Asia by : Sheila Zurbrigg

This book highlights the role of acute hunger in malaria lethality in colonial South Asia and investigates how this understanding came to be lost in modern medical, epidemic, and historiographic thought. Using the case studies of colonial Punjab, Sri Lanka, and Bengal, it traces the loss of fundamental concepts and language of hunger in the inter-war period with the reductive application of the new specialisms of nutritional science and immunology, and a parallel loss of the distinction between infection (transmission) and morbid disease. The study locates the final demise of the ‘Human Factor’ (hunger) in malaria history within pre- and early post-WW2 international health institutions – the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation and the nascent WHO’s Expert Committee on Malaria. It examines the implications of this epistemic shift for interpreting South Asian health history, and reclaims a broader understanding of common endemic infection (endemiology) as a prime driver, in the context of subsistence precarity, of epidemic mortality history and demographic change. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of public health, social medicine and social epidemiology, imperial history, epidemic and demographic history, history of medicine, medical sociology, and sociology.

History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India

History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 407
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ISBN-10 : 9781000485004
ISBN-13 : 1000485005
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India by : Suvobrata Sarkar

This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Tracing its evolution from the establishment of the East India Company through to the early decades after the Independence of India, it highlights the ways in which the discipline has changed over the years and examines the various influences that have shaped it. Drawing on extensive case studies, the book offers valuable insights into diverse themes such as the East–West encounter, appropriation of new knowledge, science in translation and communication, electricity and urbanization, the colonial context of engineering education, science of hydrology, oil and imperialism, epidemic and empire, vernacular medicine, gender and medicine, as well as environment and sustainable development in the colonial and postcolonial milieu. An indispensable text on South Asia’s experience of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian studies, modern Indian history, sociology, history of science, cultural studies, colonialism, as well as studies on Science, Technology, and Society (STS).

Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9783031308444
ISBN-13 : 3031308441
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by : Olga Shvetsova

This book examines how governments around the world responded to the health emergency created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Before vaccines became available, non-medical interventions were the main means to protect the public. Non-medical interventions were put in place by governments as public health policies. In every nation, politicians and governments faced a choice situation, and worldwide, they made different choices. Public health policies came at a price, in economic, social, and ultimately electoral costs to the political incumbents. The book discusses differences in governments’ policy efforts to mitigate the virus spread. The authors conduct in-depth analysis of country-cases from Africa, North and South America, Asia, and Europe. They also offer small-n- comparative analyses as well as report global patterns and trends of governments’ responsiveness to the medical emergency. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, health policy and governance.

Tea Environments and Plantation Culture

Tea Environments and Plantation Culture
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781108610155
ISBN-13 : 1108610153
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Tea Environments and Plantation Culture by : Arnab Dey

Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal, environmental, and agro-economic aspects of tea production illuminate covert, expedient, and often illegal administrative and commercial dealings that had an immediate and long-term human and environmental impact on the region. Critiquing this imperial commodity's advertised mandate of agrarian modernization in colonial India, Dey points to numerous tea pests, disease ecologies, felled forests, harsh working conditions, wage manipulation, and political resistance as examples of tea's unseemly legacy in the subcontinent. Dey draws together the plant and the plantation in highlighting the ironies of the tea economy and its consequences for the agrarian history of eastern India.

Body and Cosmos

Body and Cosmos
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 447
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ISBN-10 : 9789004438224
ISBN-13 : 900443822X
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Body and Cosmos by : Toke Lindegaard Knudsen

Body and Cosmos presents a series of articles by renowned Indological scholars on the early Indian medical and astral sciences. It is published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk.