Malarial Subjects Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909
Deb Roy, Rohan
Malarial Subjects Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 - Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2017 - 1 electronic resource (350 p.) - Science in History .
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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. This title is also available as Open Access.
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English
9781316771617 9781316771617
10.1017/9781316771617 doi
History of medicine
Cinchona disease Malaria nineteenth century Presidencies and provinces of British India Quinine
Malarial Subjects Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 - Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2017 - 1 electronic resource (350 p.) - Science in History .
Open Access
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. This title is also available as Open Access.
Creative Commons
English
9781316771617 9781316771617
10.1017/9781316771617 doi
History of medicine
Cinchona disease Malaria nineteenth century Presidencies and provinces of British India Quinine