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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Deb Roy, Rohan (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:	Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
Subjects:	Malaria > India > History > 19th century. Malaria > India > History > 20th century. Cinchona. Malaria > history Colonialism > history Quinine > history Cinchona Mosquito Vectors History, 19th Century History, 20th Century India Paludisme > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle. Paludisme > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle. Quinquina (Plante) Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle. Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle. Malaria 1800-1999 disease nineteenth century Presidencies and provinces of British India Quinine Electronic books. History
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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.