Fractured States: Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India

This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India. It examines vaccination policy and technology from a political, economic and technical perspective as well as the cultural and religious implications of medical intervention in smallpox eradication. There is an exposition of the complex and sometimes contradictory official and civilian attitudes toward the development of smallpox control and public health measures in India.

Sanjoy Bhattacharya is Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.

Mark Harrison is Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford and Reader in the History of Medicine within the Modern History faculty.

Michael Warboys is Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester.