Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement

by Jane Buckingham and Jane Buckingham

Book Overview

Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India. Leprosy in Colonial South India offers a detailed examination of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349425303
• ISBN13: 9781349425303
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"