Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India
by David Arnold
In Colonizing the Body, David Arnold explores state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India. The book examines how public health became connected to colonial governance, administration, and the body, offering a focused historical study of medicine and power in the Indian context.
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Colonizing the Body examines state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
David Arnold explores the historical relationship between public health, colonial governance, and the human body.
The book considers how medical responses to disease became part of broader systems of authority and administration.
It offers a focused study of medicine, epidemics, and colonial rule in the Indian context.
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