Leprosy in British India, 1860-1940: Colonial politics and missionary medicine

Medical History

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 215-230

  Kakar, Sanjiv ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b Bungalow 31 ^*  (India)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLERGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEPROSY; POLITICS;

HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPROSY; MEDICAL MISSIONS, OFFICIAL; MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES; POLITICS;

EID: 0030113349     PISSN: 00257273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025727300061019     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. This contrasts with the volume of historical study on leprosy elsewhere; see Zachary Gussow, Leprosy, racism and public health: social policy in chronic disease control, Boulder and London, Westview Press, 1989; Gussow's scattered comments on leprosy in India, mostly contained in a chapter on Hawaii (pp. 85-110) constitute the major historical discussion to date. See also C De. F W Goonaratna, 'Some historical aspects of leprosy in Ceylon during the Dutch period, 1658-1796', Med. Hist. 1971, 15: 68-78; W S Davidson, Havens of refuge: a history of leprosy in western Australia, Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1978; Suzanne Saunders, 'A suitable island site': leprosy in the Northern Territory and the Channel Island leprosarium 1880-1955, Darwin, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 1989.
2. This contrasts with the volume of historical study on leprosy elsewhere; see Zachary Gussow, Leprosy, racism and public health: social policy in chronic disease control, Boulder and London, Westview Press, 1989; Gussow's scattered comments on leprosy in India, mostly contained in a chapter on Hawaii (pp. 85-110) constitute the major historical discussion to date. See also C De. F W Goonaratna, 'Some historical aspects of leprosy in Ceylon during the Dutch period, 1658-1796', Med. Hist. 1971, 15: 68-78; W S Davidson, Havens of refuge: a history of leprosy in western Australia, Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1978; Suzanne Saunders, 'A suitable island site': leprosy in the Northern Territory and the Channel Island leprosarium 1880-1955, Darwin, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 1989.
3. This contrasts with the volume of historical study on leprosy elsewhere; see Zachary Gussow, Leprosy, racism and public health: social policy in chronic disease control, Boulder and London, Westview Press, 1989; Gussow's scattered comments on leprosy in India, mostly contained in a chapter on Hawaii (pp. 85-110) constitute the major historical discussion to date. See also C De. F W Goonaratna, 'Some historical aspects of leprosy in Ceylon during the Dutch period, 1658-1796', Med. Hist. 1971, 15: 68-78; W S Davidson, Havens of refuge: a history of leprosy in western Australia, Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1978; Suzanne Saunders, 'A suitable island site': leprosy in the Northern Territory and the Channel Island leprosarium 1880-1955, Darwin, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 1989.
4. This contrasts with the volume of historical study on leprosy elsewhere; see Zachary Gussow, Leprosy, racism and public health: social policy in chronic disease control, Boulder and London, Westview Press, 1989; Gussow's scattered comments on leprosy in India, mostly contained in a chapter on Hawaii (pp. 85-110) constitute the major historical discussion to date. See also C De. F W Goonaratna, 'Some historical aspects of leprosy in Ceylon during the Dutch period, 1658-1796', Med. Hist. 1971, 15: 68-78; W S Davidson, Havens of refuge: a history of leprosy in western Australia, Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1978; Suzanne Saunders, 'A suitable island site': leprosy in the Northern Territory and the Channel Island leprosarium 1880-1955, Darwin, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 1989.