Public Health in British India : Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914 (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction; 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; Conclusion.