Peckham, Robert (Editor)
Pomfret, David M. (Editor)
Hong Kong University Press
Publication date: 2013
Language: English
Physical Details: xi + 307 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Imperial Contagions complicates common historical narratives portraying a straightforward shift from older, enclavist models of colonial medicine to newer pursuits of prevention and treatment among indigenous populations and European residents. In a series of essays, the volume shows colonial medicine was not a homogeneous, "on the ground" phenomenon but rather a practice rife with tensions and contradictions. Indigenous elites contested and appropriated Western medical knowledge and practices for their own purposes, while colonial policies contained contradictory and cross-cutting impulses. Contributors ultimately challenge the long-standing belief that colonial regimes uniformly regulated indigenous bodies and that colonial medicine served as a "tool of empire.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Anderson, Warwick (2014) Review of "Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia". Journal of Asian Studies (p. 202).
Review Beattie, James (2014) Review of "Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia". Health and History (pp. 155-157).
Chapter Chang, Jiat-Hwee (2013) “Tropicalizing” Planning: Sanitation, Housing, and Technologies of Improvement in Colonial Singapore, 1907--1942. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 37).
Chapter Pomfret, David M. (2013) “Beyond Risk of Contagion”: Childhood, Hill Stations, and the Planning of British and French Colonial Cities. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 81).
Chapter Legg, Stephen (2013) Planning Social Hygiene: From Contamination to Contagion in Interwar India. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 105).
Chapter Amrith, Sunil S. (2013) “Contagion of the Depot”: The Government of Indian Emigration. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 151).
Chapter Wald, Priscilla (2013) Afterword: “Global Health” and the Persistence of History. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 215).
Chapter Chu, Cecilia (2013) Combating Nuisance: Sanitation, Regulation, and the Politics of Property in Colonial Hong Kong. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 17).
Chapter Harris, Richard; Lewis, Robert (2013) Colonial Anxiety Counted: Plague and Census in Bombay and Calcutta, 1901. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 61).
Chapter Peckham, Robert (2013) Matshed Laboratory: Colonies, Cultures, and Bacteriology. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 123).
Chapter Richardson, Ruth (2013) Carter and Contagion in India: Anatomy, Geography, Morphology. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 163).
Chapter Gilman, Sander L. (2013) Epidemics of Famine and Obesity: China as the Modern World. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 179).
Chapter Monnais, Laurence (2013) “Rails, Roads, and Mosquito Foes”: The State Quinine Service in French Indochina. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 195).
Chapter Peckham, Robert; Pomfret, David M. (2013) Introduction: Medicine, Hygiene, and the Re-ordering of Empire. In: Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia (p. 1).
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