Imperial contagions : medicine, hygiene, and cultures of planning in Asia / edited by Robert Peckham and David M. Pomfret.

Medicine, hygiene, and cultures of planning in Asia

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2013]

xi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Combating nuisance : sanitation, regulation, and the politics of property in colonial Hong Kong / Cecilia Chu -- 'Tropicalizing' planning : sanitation, housing, and technologies of improvement in colonial Singapore, 1907-1942 / Jiat-Hwee Chang -- Colonial anxiety counted : plague and census in Bombay and Calcutta, 1901 / Richard Harris and Robert Lewis -- "Beyond risk of contagion" : childhood, hill stations, and the planning of British and French colonial cities / David M. Pomfret -- Planning social hygiene : from contamination to contagion in interwar India / Stephen Legg -- Matshed laboratory : colonies, cultures, and bacteriology / Robert Peckham -- "Contagion of the depot" : the government of Indian emigration / Sunil S. Amrith -- Carter and contagion in India : anatomy, geography, morphology / Ruth Richardson -- Epidemics of famine and obesity : China as the modern world / Sander L. Gilman -- 'Rails, roads, and mosquito foes' : the state quinine service in French Indochina / Laurence Monnais -- 'Global health' and the persistence of history / Priscilla Wald.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index.