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020			_a9781349425303
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100			_aBuckingham, Jane.
245		0	_aLeprosy in colonial South India: medicine and confinement/ _cJane Buckingham.
260			_aNew York: _bPalgrave MacMillan, _c2002.
300			_axi, 236 p. ; _c23 cm.
505			_aAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Indian and British Concepts of Leprosy and of the Leprosy Sufferer. Nineteenth-century indigenous and British understandings of leprosy. British perceptions of the leprosy sufferer in nineteenth-century south India. The position of the leprosy sufferer in Hindu culture -- 2. Patient or Prisoner? Leprosy Sufferers in British Institutional Care. Institutions. Leprosy sufferers in institutional care. The nature of the institution. Patient or prisoner? The ambiguity of the leprosy sufferer's status -- 3. Colonial Medicine in the Indigenous Context. The indigenous medical context. The relationship between indigenous and European medical systems -- 4. Leprosy Treatment: Indigenous and British Approaches. Remedies. Indigenous borrowing from British medicine. Patient resistance -- 5. Leprosy Research and the Development of Colonial Medical Science. Introduction. Leprosy research 1800-60. Leprosy research in the 1860s and 1870s. 'In the interests of science and humanity' -- 6. The Politics of Leprosy Control. Introduction. Indian government initiative in treatment trials. Local medical control. Disease theory and sanitary politics -- 7. Confining Leprosy Sufferers: the Lepers Act. The 1889 Leprosy Bill. The Leprosy Commission's Report. The 1896 Leprosy Bill. The 1898 Lepers Act. Conclusion Notes Biographies Bibliography Index
650			_aIndia
650			_aLeprosy
650			_aMedicine
650			_aPublic health--Political aspects
650			_aImperialism--Health aspects
650			_aLeprosy--Government policy
650			_aLeprosy--Social aspects
650			_aBritish Occupation of India (1765-1947)
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