Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India by David Arnold

Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India

David Arnold

368 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

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In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized an...

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