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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Report on Measures Adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India
Author: Report on Measures Adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India
Author: Great Britain. India OfficePublisher:
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army ...
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army
Author: United States Army. Library of the Surgeon General's Office (Washington).Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1218
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Social History of Epidemics in the Colonial Punjab
Author: SashaPublisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 148283622X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Since the earliest times, epidemics have broken out at regular intervals killing a large number of people. They have presented peculiar problems both to the state and to the society. The colonial India in general and the Punjab in particular were affected intermittently by epidemics. The Punjab was one of the worst affected provinces of the colonial India in which several lakhs of people fell prey to the deadly epidemics. Punjab was the wheat basket of the British empire and the leading recruitment centre for military service in British Indian army. Due to its strategic and military importance, the British handled the epidemics with great vigour. However, in their attempt to contain the epidemic, the British impinged on the privacy and religious susceptibilites of the natives. The present work discusses the role of the state in handling the epidemics and the response of the society to such measures. Sasha: The author is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Panjab University, Chandigah.She did her doctorate in the faculty of Arts under UGC fellowship from the Panjab University. She has to her credit several publications both in international and national journals on the issues of health, medicine and society in the colonial period.
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Colonizing the Body
Author: David ArnoldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520082953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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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 and the colonizers. Focusing on three major epidemic diseases—smallpox, cholera, and plague—Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions. By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule.
Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj
Author: Jharna GourlayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135193631X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj presents in detail Nightingale's involvement with India and Indians, and shows how she progressed from being concerned with the narrow sphere of army sanitation to the socio-economic condition of the whole of India. Despite her interest in the country, Florence Nightingale never actually visited India, yet she still managed to instigate and inspire a number of sanitary and social reforms there. Starting in 1857 with army sanitation she had by the end of her involvement with India in 1896 shifted her attention to such social issues as village sanitation and female education. In between she was involved with the development of hospitals, irrigation, famine relief, the land tenure system in Bengal, urban sanitation, and female nursing. In Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj, Jharna Gourlay covers all these aspects of Florence Nightingale’s work, tracing her political involvement and her growing awareness of Indian problems, showing how she gradually moved from an imperialist position to one advocating power sharing with Indians. Her story is also one of how a private individual without official position, moreover a woman in a patriarchal society, could influence government policy and public opinion on matters of immense importance. Based on primary sources from both Britain and India, particularly her own correspondence and articles, this book tells Florence Nightingale’s story through her own words, whilst simultaneously placing it in the wider historical context. As such it will prove a fascinating and illuminating study for a wide range of scholars interested in nineteenth century imperialist, medical, gender and social history.
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