Titlebook: Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940; Policy-Making and th Sandhya L. Polu Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishe

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e neophyte as if it were constituted by some mighty conceptual struggle, with well-defined forces lining up on either side, a philosophical analogue to “The Frazier vs. Ali Fight” or “The 1955 World Series.” Of course, there are initial advantages to structuring the issues of the field under vivid h

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,Plague and Cholera — The Epidemic versus the Endemic, victims and in anyone who might come into contact with them or their effects. Indian port cities, teeming with undernourished populations housed in overcrowded and insanitary dwellings and without access to pure water, could not have been more welcoming of disease. Bombay, in particular, was ripe f

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,Malaria — India’s True Plague,search in outposts of the Indian Medical Service would finally be validated when he discovered that the malaria parasite was transmitted through mosquito saliva during the act of biting. Although Ross’ malaria research was indisputably a monumental advance in understanding malaria’s epidemiology, th

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,From Panama to Khartoum — Yellow Fever Inches Closer to Home,e unsightliness of black vomit and jaundiced bodies. During the first half of the 1900s, government officials could not have known that India would be so lucky. They dreaded having to battle yet another infectious disease and the potential public health disaster and consequent damage to trade that m

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Disease as Prism,y entered into discussions of infectious disease policy at the central level. The Government of India’s approach to health policy was largely instrumental, considering international and domestic political relationships and economic impact primarily and the well-being of Indians only secondarily, if

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Epilogue: Swine Flu Redux, disease control policies. Just a few years ago, in March of 2009, unusual cases of influenza-like illness began appearing in worrisome numbers in Mexico. Later identified as H1N1, this novel strain of influenza was quickly branded the ‘swine flu’. This undesirable moniker led people to believe that

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