Empire under the microscope : : parasitology and the British literary imagination, 1885-1935 / / Emilie Taylor-Pirie.
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and it...
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| Superior document: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (303 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire
- 2. The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology
- 3. Expeditions into ‘Central Man’: Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity
- 4. Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze
- 5. Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter
- 6. Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique
- 7. Epilogue: Pan Narrans.