Title Infectious disease in India, 1892-1940 : policy-making and the perception of risk / Sandhya L. Polu

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction All Eyes on India Plague and Cholera -- The Epidemic versus the Endemic Malaria -- India's True Plague From Panama to Khartoum -- Yellow Fever Inches Closer to Home Disease as Prism Epilogue: Swine Flu Redux Notes Bibliography Index Summary 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. Long before the terms global health, biosecurity, and public health preparedness came into existence, European and colonial governments struggled to contain and prevent the spread of epidemic diseases from India to the western world. The significance of India to Europe -- commercially, epidemiologically, strategically -- meant that India occupied a central position in debates on the control of epidemic diseases, becoming a focus of international concern and regulation. European anxieties grew during the later colonial period as increased global trade and faster transportation heightened the risk that these diseases would spread from India to Europe. Risk and fear, however, were not limited to European states. The colonial government in India recognized that infectious diseases posed certain risks to its ability to govern and to the colonial economy. This book uses case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever to analyze how factors such as health diplomacy, epidemiology, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms, operated within global and colonial conceptions of risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Public health -- India -- History -- 20th century Public health -- India -- History -- 19th century Communicable diseases -- Government policy -- India -- History -- 20th century Communicable diseases -- Government policy -- India -- History -- 19th century Medical policy. Communicable Diseases -- history Health Policy History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Colonialism & imperialism. General & world history. History of medicine. History. Medical policy Communicable diseases -- Government policy Public health SUBJECT India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915 India Subject India Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137009326 1137009322 9781349346578 1349346578

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