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Author Deb Roy, Rohan, author.

Title Malarial subjects : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 / Rohan Deb Roy
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 332 pages) : illustrations
Series Science in history
Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
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
Summary 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
Analysis Malaria
disease
nineteenth century
Cinchona
Presidencies and provinces of British India
Quinine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-323) and index
Notes Creative Commons Open Access license CC-BY-NC-ND4.0
Online resource; title from electronic title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 31, 2018)
Subject 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
Cinchona
Malaria
SUBJECT India
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781316771617
131677161X
Other Titles Empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909