Mridula Ramanna was formerly Reader and Head of the Department of History, South Indian Education Society College, University of Mumbai, India. She has authored Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay, 1845-1895 (2002), and contributed chapters to edited volumes: Science and Modern India: an Institutional History (2011); Science and Society in India, 1750-2000 (2010); History of Medicine in India: the Medical Encounter (2005); History and Gender: Some Explorations (2005); Colonialism as a Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India (2004); The Spanish Influenza Pandemi...