| Author/Contributor(s): | Arnold, David |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Date: | 08/12/1993 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.