Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940: Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk

By Sandhya L. Polu

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230354602
• ISBN13: 9780230354609
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"