Guest Lecture.

Leprocy in Colonial India.
By Dr. Biswamoy Pati, Delhi University.
Thursday 23. September. 1-3 PM, Building 5126, Room 219

 

 

 

Shifting approaches to tuberculosis in India c. 1920-1960
By Dr. Niels Brimnes, Aarhus University.
Thursday 23. September. 1-3 PM, Building 5126, Room 219.

 

 

 

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Programme:
13.00-13.10: Welcome and Introduction

13.10-13.45: Dr. Biswamoy Pati (Delhi University), Leprosy in colonial India

13.45-14.00: Break. Tea and Coffee are provided

14.00-14.35: Dr. Niels Brimnes (Aarhus University),
Shifting approaches to tuberculosis in India c. 1920-1960

14.35-15.00: Open discussion

Recommended readings:
B. Pati and C. P. Nanda, ‘The leprosy patient and Society: colonial Orissa, 1870s-1940s, in B. Pati and M. Harrison (eds), The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India, London: Routledge 2009.

M. Harrison and M. Worboys, ‘A Disease of Civilisation. Tuberculosis in Britain, Africa and India, 1900-39, in. L. Marks and M. Worboys (eds). Migrants, Minorities and Health, London: Routledge 1997.

Supplementary readings:
Jane Buckingham, Leprosy in Colonial South India, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2002, pp. 7-35.

Sanjiv Kakar, ‘Medical Developments and Patient Unrest in the Leprosy Asylum, 1860 to 1940, in B. Pati and M. Harrison.
Health, Mediciner and Empire. Perspectives on Colonial India, Delhi: Orient Longman 2001.

Sunil Amrith, ‘In search of a ‘Magic Bullet’ for Tuberculosis: south India and Beyond, social History of Medicine, 17,1 (2004).

 

 

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