Chakrabarti, Pratik (2010) Curing Cholera: Pathogens, Places and Poverty in South Asia. International Journal of South Asian Studies, 3 . pp. 153-168.
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Abstract
In this paper I will seek to provide a new understanding of endemicity of disease in India. Through a study of cholera research in the twentieth century I will argue that disease and its endemicity has to be understood in biological factors as well as within a wider social and economic context. I will discuss the medical efforts at locating the causality of cholera from the nineteenth century in Indian climate, water bodies and human anatomy to show that cholera is no more a biological phenomena than water is an ecological or environmental problem. Both are essentially political and economic questions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Humanities > School of History |
| Depositing User: | Pratik Chakrabarti |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2010 22:26 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2012 11:23 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/25039 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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