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Book Review: Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India

Book Review: Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India

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Book Review: Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India

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Book Review: Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India

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Pittsburgh: Duke University Press, NC & IL

Journal title

The Journal of Asian studies, 2013, Vol.72 (4), p.1019

Language

English

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Pittsburgh: Duke University Press, NC & IL

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Contents

The subdisciplinary concerns that circumscribe the book are spelled out in the introductory chapter that references a well-established "canon" of colonial medicine to discuss the status of the tropics in European medical writing, the disciplinary foundations of tropical medicine, and the role of the state in institutionalizing Western medicine in I...

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Book Review: Contagion and Enclaves: Tropical Medicine in Colonial India

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1462270197

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1462270197

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ISSN

0021-9118

E-ISSN

1752-0401

DOI

10.1017/S0021911813001502

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