Rohan Deb Roy

Malarial Subjects

Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781316623619
• ISBN-10: 1316623610
• Artikelnr.: 58304255

Autorenporträt

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.