Arabinda Samanta

Living with Epidemics in Colonial Bengal (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Making epidemics in colonial Bengal as its entry point and drawing on social, cultural and linguistic anthropology to understand the functions of health experiences, illness, prevention of sickness, social relations of therapeutic intervention and employment of pluralistic medical systems, the book interrogates the social construction of medical knowledge, politics of science, and the changing paradigm of relationship between health of the individual and the prerogatives of larger colonial economic formations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351399654
• Artikelnr.: 49041315

Autorenporträt

Arabinda Samanta is Professor of History at the University of Burdwan, West Bengal. A prolific writer on the social history of epidemics and medicine in colonial India, he is the author of Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal: Social History of an Epidemic (2002); and co-editor of The Revolt of 1857: Memory, Identity, History (2009); Life and Culture in Bengal: Colonial and Post-Colonial Experiences (2011) and Research Methodology in Social Sciences: Emerging Trends (2012).

He has been a Visiting Fellow at ZHCES, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2002), Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, UK (2003), Rockefeller Archive Center, New York, USA (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Malaria
2. Cholera
3. Smallpox
4. Plague
5. Conclusion