Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909

ISBN-13: 9781316623619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 348 str.

Rohan Deb Roy

Opis

This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Spis treści

Introduction: side-effects of empire; 1. 'Fairest of Peruvian maids': planting cinchonas in British India; 2. 'An imponderable poison': shifting geographies of a diagnostic category; 3. 'A cinchona disease': making Burdwan fever; 4. 'Beating about the bush': manufacturing quinine in a colonial factory; 5. Of 'losses gladly borne': feeding quinine, warring mosquitoes; Epilogue.