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Public health in British India : Anglo-Indian preventive medicine, 1859-1914

Title
  1. Public health in British India : Anglo-Indian preventive medicine, 1859-1914 / Mark Harrison.
Published by
  1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1994.
Author
  1. Harrison, Mark, 1964-

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Description
  1. xvii, 324 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. Cambridge history of medicine
Uniform title
  1. Cambridge history of medicine.
Subject
  1. Medicine, Preventive > Government policy > India
  2. Public health > India > History > 19th century
  3. Public health > India > History > 20th century
  4. Medical policy > India > History > 19th century
  5. Medical policy > India > History > 20th century
  6. Public Health > history
  7. Preventive Health Services > history
  8. Health Policy > history
  9. India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947
  10. India
Contents
  1. Map of British India in the first half of the twentieth century -- 1. The Indian medical service -- 2. Tropical hygiene: disease theory and prevention in nineteenth-century India -- 3. The foundations of public health in India: crisis and constraint -- 4. Cholera theory and sanitary policy -- 5. Quarantine, pilgrimage and colonial trade: India 1866-1900 -- 6. Professional visions and political realities, 1896-1914 -- 7. Public health and local self-government -- 8. The politics of health in Calcutta, 1876-1899.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-316) and index.