Leprosy in British India, 1860–1940: Colonial politics and missionary medicine
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Leprosy in British India, 1860-1940: colonial politics and missionary medicine.
Leprosy has received scant attention in discussions of health in colonial India, which have focused on imperial and colonial politics, and on state intervention.1 Nongovernmental efforts, of which leprosy offers an important instance, have been neglected.2 In this article I discuss the dissemination of western medicine for leprosy in colonial India, which was largely the work of Christian missi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical History
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0025-7273,2048-8343
DOI: 10.1017/s0025727300061019