Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Cholera Camp

  • The British Army and disease in Kipling’s “Cholera Camp”

    Cristóbal S. Berry-CabánFort Bragg, North Carolina, United States Rudyard Kipling’s writing is inseparable from the British Empire in India, offering a vivid examination at how imperial power, military life, and disease collided. Among the many diseases that plagued the region, cholera was especially terrifying. Kipling’s “Cholera Camp” is a grim narrative poem told from the perspective of…