Achintya Kumar Dutta

Gebundenes Buch

Fighting the Fever

Beschreibung

The book investigates certain obscure but important aspects of the social history of disease and medicine in colonial eastern India against the backdrop of the outbreak of a lethal disease called kala-azar, or black fever.

Autor

Achintya Kumar Dutta is Professor of History at the University of Burdwan, India. His areas of interest include the social history of medicine and public health in northeast India in the 19th and 20th centuries with special reference to kala-azar epidemic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9781009568203
• ISBN-10: 1009568205
• Artikelnr.: 73534809