Arnold, David (2009) Diabetes in the tropics: race, place and class in India, 1880-1965. Social History of Medicine, Vol.22 (No.2). pp. 245-261. doi:10.1093/shm/hkp005

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Abstract

A disease predominantly of India's urban middle class and increasingly common in modern India, diabetes attracted little state medical attention either before or in the decades immediately following Indian independence in 1947. It did, however, give rise to an extensive medical literature, generated by both Indian and British doctors, pathologists and medical researchers, who understood the disease not just in terms of class susceptibility and the consequences of colonial modernity, but also in relation to racial and environmental characteristics. The rise of 'tropical diabetes' in India thus reflected and exemplified a wider trend towards the racialisation and tropicalisation of Indian medical thought. Despite the discovery of insulin in the early 1920s, prophylaxis and treatment of the disease in India suggested a continuing belief in a culturally distinctive approach to the disease.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Journal or Publication Title:	Social History of Medicine
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0951-631X
Official Date:	August 2009
Dates:	Date Event August 2009 Published
Volume:	Vol.22
Number:	No.2
Number of Pages:	17
Page Range:	pp. 245-261
DOI:	10.1093/shm/hkp005
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder:	Centre for the History of Medicine at Warwick

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