Malarial subjects empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Series: | Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009420086606719 |
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.
