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Leprosy in Colonial South India

Medicine and Confinement

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  • © 2002

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  1. Jane Buckingham

    1. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jane Buckingham
    Pages 1-6

  3. Indian and British Concepts of Leprosy and of the Leprosy Sufferer

    • Jane Buckingham
    Pages 7-35

  4. Patient or Prisoner? Leprosy Sufferers in British Institutional Care

    • Jane Buckingham
    Pages 36-60

  5. Colonial Medicine in the Indigenous Context

    • Jane Buckingham
    Pages 61-75

  6. Leprosy Treatment: Indigenous and British Approaches

    • Jane Buckingham
    Pages 76-106

  7. Leprosy Research and the Development of Colonial Medical Science

    • Jane Buckingham
    Pages 107-133

  8. The Politics of Leprosy Control

    • Jane Buckingham
    Pages 134-156

  9. Confining Leprosy Sufferers: the Lepers Act

    • Jane Buckingham
    Pages 157-188

  10. Conclusion

    • Jane Buckingham
    Pages 189-191

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 192-236
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About this book

Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India. Leprosy in Colonial South India offers a detailed examination of the contribution of leprosy treatment and legislative measures to negotiated relationships between indigenous and British medicine and the colonial impact on indigenous class formation, while asserting the agency of the poor and vagrant leprous classes in their own history.

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  • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Jane Buckingham

About the author

JANE BUCKINGHAM is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her research took her not only to the libraries and archives of the UK and India but to the leprosy hospitals and rehabilitation centres of the South Indian heartland.

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