Book ID: CBB894891343

Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (2017)

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Roy, Rohan Deb (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 346 pages
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Rowen, Jonah
Kathleen Davidson
Martin, Reinhold
Subramanian, Samanth
Zurbrigg, Sheila
Yip, Ka-che
Concepts
Great Britain, colonies
Colonialism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Malaria
Science and society
Human experimentation
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
21st century
Places
India
Great Britain
Australia
Hong Kong
United States
South Africa
Institutions
Bombay Natural History Society
East India College
East India Company (English)
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