Dreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal: Cholera, Malaria and Smallpox: A Documentation - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 9390633133 ISBN 13 : 9789390633135

Editeur : Primus Books, 2021

Synopsis

Dreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal is the third volume produced under the aegis of the Wellcome Trust (London) funded documentation project 'Western Medicine and Indigenous Society: History of Disease, Medicine and Public Health Policy in Colonial Eastern India, (1757-1947)'. While the first volume documented the context in which hospitals were established in Calcutta during the rule of the British East India Company, and the second analysed the trauma caused by tuberculosis in the public health system of twentieth-century India, the present volume brings together selections from official reports on cholera, malaria and smallpox-the three diseases which repeatedly struck colonial Bengal as epidemics. Its objective is to provide a useful resource for researchers, with ready entry points for reconstructing the incidence of these diseases, their mortality rates, social and economic effects as well as colonial medical interventions to contain them. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of studying epidemics that have struck human society in a historical continuum and the significance of the present collation needs to be viewed in this context. The book will be a welcome contribution to the rapidly developing field of History of Medicine.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Suranjan Das is Vice-Chancellor, Jadavpur University and Honorary Director, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata. He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. He specializes in South Asian history and politics and has authored six monographs, co-authored five books, co-edited seven volumes and published thirty articles in referred journals and edited volumes, which are widely cited.

Achintya Kumar Dutta is Professor of History, University of Burdwan and former postdoctoral Commonwealth Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He is the author of Trauma in Public Health: Tuberculosis in Twentieth-century India (2018) and Economy and Ecology in a Bengal District: Burdwan, 1880-1947 (2002). He has also edited Intellectual History: A New Understanding (1999) and co-edited Connecting Nations: Politico-cultural Mapping of India and South East Asia (2019) and History of Medicine in India: The Medical Encounter (2005). He is currently working on the social history of the kala-azar epidemic in colonial eastern India.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Primus Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: français
• ISBN 10: 9390633133
• ISBN 13: 9789390633135
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 422
• Éditeur: Das Suranjan, Dutta Achintya Kumar
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne