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Printed resources

See also 'Veterinary resources' below

  • Arnold, David, 'Colonising the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic in Nineteenth Century in India' (Berkeley; London: University of California Press, 1993).
  • Arnold, David, '"An Ancient Race Outworn": Malaria and Race in Colonial India, 1860-1930', in 'Race, Science and Medicine', edited by Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris (London: Routledge, 1999).
  • Arnold, David, 'Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India', vol. III.5, 'The New Cambridge History of India' (Cambridge: CUP, 2000).
  • Arnold, David, 'Disease, Resistance and India's Ecological Frontier, 1770-1947', in 'Issues in Modern Indian History: For Sumit Sarkar', edited by Biswamoy Pati (Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, 2000), pp. 1-22.
  • Buckingham, Jane, 'Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement' (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002).
  • Desowitz, Robert S, 'The Malaria Capers: more tales of parasites and people, research and reality' (New York: W W Norton & Company, 1991)
  • Harrison, Mark, 'Public Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914' (Cambridge: CUP, 1994).
  • Harrison, Mark, 'Hot Beds of Disease: Malaria and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century British India', 'Parassitologia', vol. 40, 1998, pp. 11-18.
  • Jaggi, O P , 'Medicine in India: modern period' (New Delhi; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
  • Kakar, Sanjiv, 'Medical Developments and Patient Unrest in the Leprosy Asylum, 1860 to 1940' in 'Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India', ed. Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (Hyderabad: Orient Longman Ltd, 2001), pp. 188-216.
  • Kamath, Manjari, '"The Palkhi as Plague Carrier": The Pandharpur Fair and the Sanitary Fixation of the Colonial State; British India, 1908-16', in 'Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India', edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (Hyderabad: Orient Longman Ltd, 2001), pp. 299-316.
  • Klein, Ira, 'Death in India, 1871-1921', 'JOAS', vol. 32, no. 4, 1973, pp. 639-59.
  • Klein, Ira, 'Plague Policy and Popular Unrest in British India' 'MAS', vol. 22, no. 4, 1988, pp. 723-55.
  • Kumar, Amil, 'Medicine and the Raj: British Medical Policy in India, 1835-1911' (New Delhi; London: Sage, 1998)
  • Kumar, Deepak, 'Science and the Raj' (Delhi; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
  • Kumar, Deepak, (editor), 'Disease and Medicine in India: A Historical Overview' (New Delhi: Tulika, 2001).
  • Mills, James H, 'Cannabis Britannica: a Social and Political History of Cannabis and British Government, 1800-1928' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
  • Pati, Biswamoy, ' "Ordering" "Disorder" in a Holy City: Colonial Health Interventions in Puri during the Nineteenth Century' in 'Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India', ed. Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (Hyderabad: Orient Longman Ltd, 2001), pp. 270-98.
  • Ramanna, Mridulla, 'Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay, 1845-1895' (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002).
  • Watts, Sheldon, 'British Development Policies and Malaria in India 1897-c.1929', 'P&P', no. 165, 1999, pp. 141-81.
  • Whitcombe, Elizabeth, 'The Environmental Costs of Irrigation in British India: Water-logging, Salinity and Malaria', in 'Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia', edited by David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha (Delhi: OUP, 1996).

Online

Veterinary resources

Veterinary medicine, cattle and pastoralism in India

  • Bhattacharya, Neeladri, 'Pastoralists in a Colonial World' in David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha, eds. 'Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the environmental history of South Asia' (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995).
  • Mazars, G. 'Veterinary Medicine in Ancient and Medieval India','Studies in History of Science and Medicine', vol. 16, nos. 1-2 (1999-2000).
  • Satya, Laxman D, 'Ecology, Colonialism and Cattle: Central India in the Nineteenth Century' (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004).
  • Spinage, Clive, 'Cattle Plague: A History' (New York / London: Kluwer Academic, 2003). 'Part V: The History of Rinderpest in Asia and Africa.'

Veterinary medicine in the ‘metropole’

  • Dunlop, Robert H and Williams, David J, 'Veterinary Medicine: An illustrated history' (St Louis: Mosby, 1995).
  • Fisher, John, 'Not quite a Profession: the Aspirations of Veterinary Surgeons in England in the mid 19th century', 'Historical Research', vol. 66, no. 161 (1993).
  • Hardy, Ann, 'Pioneers in the Victorian Provinces: Veterinarians, Public Health and the Urban Animal Economy', 'Urban History', vol. 2, 2009.
  • Swabe, Joanna, 'Animals, Disease and Human Society: Human-Animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine' (London: Routledge, 1999).
  • Ware, Jean and Hunt, Hugh, 'The Several Lives of a Victorian Vet' (London: Bachman and Turner, 1980).
  • Woods, Abigail, 'The Construction of an Animal Plague: Foot and Mouth Disease in 19th century Britain', 'Social History of Medicine', vol. 17, no. 1, April 2004.
  • Worboys, Michael, 'Germ Theories of Disease and British Veterinary Medicine, 1860-1890', 'Medical History', vol. 35, no. 5, (July 1995).

Veterinary medicine in colonial / global contexts

  • Beinart, William, Brown, Karen, Gilfoyle, Daniel, 'Experts and Expertise in Colonial Africa Reassessed: Colonial Science and the Interpenetration of Knowledge', 'African Affairs', 108, 432 (2009), pp. 413-433.
  • Brown, Karen, 'From Ubombo to Mkhuzi: Disease, Colonial Science and the Control of nagana (livestock trypanosomosis) in Zululand, South Africa, c1894-1955', 'Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences', 63, 3 (July 2008), pp. 285-322.
  • Brown, Karen, 'Tropical Medicine and Animal Diseases: Onderstepoort and the Development of Veterinary Science in South Africa 1908-1950', 'Journal of Southern African Studies', 31, 3 (September 2005), pp. 513-529.
  • Brown, Karen and Gilfoyle, Daniel (editors), 'Healing the Herds: Disease, livestock economies, and the globalisation of veterinary medicine' (Athens: Ohio, 2010).
  • Gilfoyle, Daniel and Brown, Karen, 'Frontiers of Knowledge: Veterinary Science, Environment and the State in South Africa', (VDM Publishers, 2009).
  • Davis, Diana K, 'Brutes, Beasts and Empire: Veterinary Medicine and Environmental Policy in French North Africa and British India', 'Journal of Historical Geography' (2008), 34, 2, pp. 242-267.

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