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.
| ISBN: | 9781349346578 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2012 |
| Author: | S. Polu |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 229 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
| Genres: |
Historiography History of science General and world history Colonialism and imperialism Social and cultural history Asian history |