Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance, medical technologies, and cultural norms operated within global and colonial conceptions of political and epidemiological risk to shape infectious disease policies in colonial India.

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SANDHYA POLU is currently Special Aide to the United States Ambassador to Italy at the US Embassy in Rome, Italy. Prior to this appointment, she worked at the Tauri Group, advising the US Department of Defense on international biosecurity policies. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University and a B.A. in History from Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Italy.

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Book Title: Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
Book Subtitle: Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk
Authors: Sandhya L. Polu
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137009326
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-35460-9Published: 17 April 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34657-8Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00932-6Published: 17 April 2012
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 229
Topics: Historiography and Method, History of Science, World History, Global and Transnational History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural History, Asian History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

All Eyes on India

Plague and Cholera — The Epidemic versus the Endemic

Malaria — India’s True Plague

From Panama to Khartoum — Yellow Fever Inches Closer to Home

Disease as Prism

Epilogue: Swine Flu Redux

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