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Leprosy And Empire
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Author : Rod Edmond
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-30
Leprosy And Empire written by Rod Edmond and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with History categories.
An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the disease in 'colonies', often on offshore islands. Discussion of the segregation of lepers is then extended to analogous examples of this practice, which, it is argued, has been an essential part of the repertoire of colonialism in the modern period. The book also examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a discussion of traveller-writers such as R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who described and fictionalised their experience of staying in a leper colony.
Empire And Leprosy In Colonial Bengal
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Author : Apalak Das
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Empire And Leprosy In Colonial Bengal written by Apalak Das and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Bengal (India) categories.
"Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind. Cases of leprosy continue to be found across the world as the most crucial health problem, especially in India and Brazil. There are a few maladies that eventually turn into social disquiets and leprosy is undoubtedly one of them. This book traces the dynamics of the interface between colonial policy on leprosy and religion, science, and society in Bengal from the mid-nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. It explores how the idea of 'degeneration' and the 'desolates' shaped the colonial legality of segregating 'lepers' in Indian society. The author also delves into the treatments of leprosy that were often transfigured from 'original' English texts, written by American or British medical professionals, into Bengali. Rich in archival resources, this book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, Indian history, public health, social history, medical humanities, medical history, and colonial history"--
The Lepers Of Our Indian Empire A Visit To Them In 1890 91
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Author : Wellesley Crosby BAILEY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Lepers Of Our Indian Empire A Visit To Them In 1890 91 written by Wellesley Crosby BAILEY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Leprosy categories.
Motives And Ideologies Behind The Leprosy Asylums In British India
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Author : Nejla Demirkaya
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-03-10
Motives And Ideologies Behind The Leprosy Asylums In British India written by Nejla Demirkaya and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with History categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 1,3, University of Göttingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies), course: Health and Medicine in South Asia: A Historical Perspective, 1750-1950, language: English, abstract: Even to modern scientists, certain aspects of leprosy such as its exact mode of transmission and point of onset remain a matter of research. How much greater the confusion in regard to leprosy must have been in colonial times, when Western medicine as we know it today was just beginning to evolve, is easily understood by looking at the many different, even contradictory attitudes towards the disease and the ways of dealing with its sufferers in British India. Using the example of the main institutions designated for the housing and the care of India’s “lepers“, the leprosy asylums, the many different motives and ideologies partaking in the medical, public and political discourse on this ancient disease shall be identified and discussed, seeking to show the many interconnections between colonial interests, public pressure, medical perspectives and missionary agenda. Did colonial intervention root in medical or rather pragmatic considerations? What religious ideologies nurtured the wish for the confinement of “lepers“? How much influence did Indian public opinion exert on the way leprosy was dealt with? This paper thus attempts to reveal the inner workings of the colonial state by looking at the many agents taking part in public health decisions and policies.
Walking Corpses
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Author : Timothy S. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-15
Walking Corpses written by Timothy S. Miller and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-15 with History categories.
In Walking Corpses, Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt contextualize reactions to leprosy in medieval Western Europe by tracing its history in Late Antique Byzantium, which had been confronting leprosy and its effects for centuries. Integrating developments in both the Latin West and the Greek East, Walking Corpses challenges a number of misperceptions about attitudes toward the disease, including that theologians branded leprosy as punishment for sin (rather, it was seen as a mark of God's favor); that Christian teaching encouraged bans on the afflicted from society (in actuality, it was Germanic customary law); or that leprosariums were prisons (instead, they were centers of care, many of them self-governing). Informed by extensive archival research and recent bioarchaeology, Walking Corpses also includes new translations of three Greek texts regarding leprosy, while a new preface to the paperback edition updates the historiography on medieval perceptions and treatments of leprosy.
The Lepers Of Our Indian Empire
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Author : Wellesley Crosby Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Lepers Of Our Indian Empire written by Wellesley Crosby Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with India categories.
Leprosy And Colonialism
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Author : Stephen Snelders
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-31
Leprosy And Colonialism written by Stephen Snelders and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-31 with History categories.
Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people affected with leprosy, and the political tensions and racial fears originating in colonial slave society, exerting their influence until after the decolonization up to the present day. In the book colonial sources are read from shifting perspectives, of the colonial rulers and, ‘from below’, the ruled. Though leprosy is today a neglected tropical disease, recognizing influences of our colonial heritage in our global management of health and disease, and exploring the perspectives of other cultures are essential in a time in which migration movements make the permeability of boundaries, and transmission of diseases, more common then perhaps ever before.
The Lepers Of Our Indian Empire A Visit To Them In 1890 91
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Author : Wellesley Crosby 1846- Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
The Lepers Of Our Indian Empire A Visit To Them In 1890 91 written by Wellesley Crosby 1846- Bailey and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Leprosy In Colonial South India
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Author : J. Buckingham
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2001-12-18
Leprosy In Colonial South India written by J. Buckingham and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-18 with Science categories.
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.
Leprosy In India
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940
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