Malarial subjects : : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 / / Rohan Deb Roy.
Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic categ...
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Deb Roy, Rohan, author. Malarial subjects : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 / Rohan Deb Roy. Empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2017 Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ©2017 1 online resource (xv, 332 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file rda Science in history Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: side effects of empire -- "Fairest of Peruvian maids": planting Cinchonas in British India -- "An imponderable poison": shifting geographies of a diagnostic category -- "A Cinchona disease": making Burdwan fever -- Beating about the bush": manufacturing quinine in a colonial factory -- Of "losses gladly borne": feeding quinine, warring mosquitoes -- Epilogue: empire, medicine and nonhumans. Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic category during this period happened within a wider context in which cinchona plants and their most valuable extract, quinine, were reinforced as objects of natural knowledge and social control. In India, the exigencies and apparatuses of British imperial rule occasioned the close interactions between these histories. In the process, British imperial rule became entangled with a network of nonhumans that included, apart from cinchona plants and the drug quinine, a range of objects described as malarial, as well as mosquitoes. Malarial Subjects explores this history of the co-constitution of a cure and disease, of British colonial rule and nonhumans, and of science, medicine and empire. Also available in print form. This work is made available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Open Access license CC-BY-NC-ND4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 In English. Description based on e-publication, viewed on August 5, 2021. Malaria India History 19th century. Malaria India History 20th century. Imperialism India. Malaria history. Colonialism history. Quinine history. Cinchona. Mosquito Vectors. Malaria disease nineteenth century Cinchona Presidencies and provinces of British India Quinine Print version: Deb Roy, Rohan. Malarial subjects. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107172364 1107172365 Science in history (Cambridge University Press) |
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Introduction: side effects of empire -- "Fairest of Peruvian maids": planting Cinchonas in British India -- "An imponderable poison": shifting geographies of a diagnostic category -- "A Cinchona disease": making Burdwan fever -- Beating about the bush": manufacturing quinine in a colonial factory -- Of "losses gladly borne": feeding quinine, warring mosquitoes -- Epilogue: empire, medicine and nonhumans. |
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