Chakrabarti, Pratik (2010) Curing Cholera: Pathogens, Places and Poverty in South Asia. International Journal of South Asian Studies, 3 . pp. 153-168. (KAR id:25039)
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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: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
Funders: | Wellcome Trust (https://ror.org/029chgv08) |
Depositing User: | Pratik Chakrabarti |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2010 22:26 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 10:05 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/25039 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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