Book ID: CBB001211510

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire (2010)

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Pande, Ishita (Author)


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Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: x + 257 pp.; ill.
Language: English

Contents: Introduction : medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal -- Race and place -- Diagnosing character : liberal racialism and the black Aryan -- Standard deviation : "national character," phrenology and a science of government -- Blood and morals -- Seeing reason : dissection, history of medicine and English education -- City and citizenship -- Sanitary subjects : fevers, filth and freedom in a dual city -- Sensing modernity : civility, class and citizenship in a sanitary city -- Sex and public -- Degenerate nation : sex, public and a government of self -- Epilogue : Bengali modern.

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Authors & Contributors
Mukharji, Projit Bihari
Tapti Roy
Sehrawat, Samiksha
Samiparna Samanta
Bhattacharyya, Debjani
Sivaramakrishman, Kavita
Concepts
Great Britain, colonies
Colonialism
India, civilization and culture
Medicine
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Globalization; internationalization
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Enlightenment
16th century
Places
Bengal (India)
India
South Asia
Calcutta (India)
South Africa
Latin America
Institutions
British East India Company
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