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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| Superior document: | Science in history |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : : Cambridge University Press,, 2017 ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 332 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.