TY - BOOK ID - 23689506 TI - Contagion and enclaves PY - 2013 VL - 10 SN - 1781386366 1846317835 1846318297 9781846317835 9781781386361 9781846318290 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Public health KW - Social medicine KW - Medical care KW - Medical sociology KW - Medicine KW - Medicine, Social KW - Public welfare KW - Sociology KW - Medical ethics KW - Medical sociologists KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Sanitary affairs KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - India KW - Indland KW - Ḣindiston Respublikasi KW - Republic of India KW - Bhārata KW - Indii︠a︡ KW - Inde KW - Indië KW - Indien KW - Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa KW - Yin-tu KW - Bharat KW - Government of India KW - インド KW - Indo KW - Social conditions KW - Social conditions. KW - Segregation. KW - Public health. KW - Medical care. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - MEDICAL KW - HISTORY KW - HEALTH & FITNESS KW - Humanities. KW - History: specific events and topics. KW - Colonialism and imperialism. KW - Ségrégation KW - Santé publique KW - Segregation KW - Disease & Health Issues. KW - Public Health. KW - Health Policy. KW - Health Care Delivery. KW - Diseases. KW - India & South Asia. KW - Health Care Issues. KW - Diseases KW - General. KW - Histoire KW - History KW - India. KW - Conditions sociales KW - Delivery of health care KW - Delivery of medical care KW - Health care KW - Health care delivery KW - Healthcare KW - Medical and health care industry KW - Medical services KW - Personal health services KW - Desegregation KW - Race discrimination KW - Minorities KW - Indi KW - Indii͡ KW - هند KW - Индия KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Classical education KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social history KW - Postcolonial KW - Bengal KW - Darjeeling KW - Darjeeling district KW - Dooars KW - Kolkata KW - Malaria KW - Tea KW - Terai UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23689506 AB - Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of the British Raj; and in the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal, which produced tea for the global market. This book studies the demographic and environmental transformation of the region: the racialization of urban spaces and its contestations, establishment of hill sanatoria, expansion of tea cultivation, labour emigration and the paternalistic modes of healthcare in the plantation. It examines how the threat of epidemics and riots informed the conflictual relationship between the plantations with the adjacent agricultural villages and district towns. It reveals how Tropical Medicine was practised in its 'field'; researches in malaria, hookworm, dysentery, cholera and leprosy were informed by investigations here, and the exigencies of the colonial state, private entrepreneurship, and municipal governance subverted their implementation. Contagion and Enclaves establishes the vital link between medicine, the political economy and the social history of colonialism. It demonstrates that while enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of articulation of colonial power and economy, they were not isolated sites. The book shows that the critical aspect of the enclaves was in their interconnectedness; with other enclaves, with the global economy and international medical research. ER -