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Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940

Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk
By:S. Polu
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230354609
eText ISBN:9781137009326
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.