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.
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.
Rohan Deb Roy is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Reading. He received his Ph.D. from University College London, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, at the University of Cambridge, and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has been a Barnard-Columbia Weiss International Visiting Scholar in the History of Science.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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