Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION

1. OCCIDENTAL THERAPEUTICS AND ORIENTAL BODIES
2. COLONIAL ENCLAVES: THE ARMY AND THE JAILS
3. SMALLPOX: THE BODY OF THE GODDESS
4. CHOLERA: DISEASE AS DISORDER
5. PLAGUE: ASSAULT ON THE BODY
6. HEALTH AND HEGEMONY
CONCLUSION

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

David Arnold is Professor of South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His recent books include Famine (1989).