Article ID: CBB396192326

Endemic risks: influenza pandemics, public health, and making self-reliant Indian citizens (2020)

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This article focuses on the politics of epidemics, health and development in the years between two pandemics of influenza in India, the so-called ‘Asian’ flu (1957) and the ‘Hong Kong’ flu (1968). I explore how public health and risk-focused cosmologies were constructed about urban life, and anchored in economic priorities about development planning, industrial productivity, and self-reliance in a modernizing Indian nation. How were pandemics ‘seen’ and identified among urban populations that were already suffering from endemic risks? Were they viewed as a continuum of local, natural hazards or through wider geopolitical insecurities? The influenza crises were characterized by incapacitation and absenteeism from work rather than high mortality rates in Indian cities, causing worries about industrial plans. The Indian state intervened minimally, and articulated ideas and rhetoric about individual responsibility and ‘cooperative citizenship’ that set the stage for later manifestations of neoliberalism.

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Authors & Contributors
Beiner, Guy
Bristow, Nancy K.
Burke, Donald S.
Caduff, Carlo
Cueto, Marcos
Dolan, Brian P.
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Medizin, Gesellschaft, und Geschichte
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University
Cambridge University Press
New York University
HarperCollins Publishers
University of California Press
Concepts
Public health
Pandemics
Influenza
Medicine and society
Infectious diseases
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, early
21st century
20th century
16th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Brazil
Great Britain
India
Ottoman Empire
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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