Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Malarial subjects : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 / Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading).
Author
Deb Roy, Rohan
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description
xv, 332 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Availability
Available Online
Cambridge Core All Books
KU Open Research Library
Cambridge Open Access Books and Elements
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
RC164.I3 D43 2017
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Malaria
—
India
—
History
—
19th century
[Browse]
Malaria
—
India
—
History
—
20th century
[Browse]
Cinchona
[Browse]
Series
Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
[More in this series]
Science in history
Summary note
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. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-323) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.`Fairest of Peruvian Maids': Planting Cinchonas in British India
2.`An Imponderable Poison': Shifting Geographies of a Diagnostic Category
3.`A Cinchona Disease': Making Burdwan Fever
4.`Beating About the Bush': Manufacturing Quinine in a Colonial Factory
5. Of `Losses Gladly Borne': Feeding Quinine, Warring Mosquitoes
6. Epilogue: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans.
Show 3 more Contents items
Other title(s)
Empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909
ISBN
9781107172364 ((hardback))
1107172365 ((hardback))
OCLC
990842766
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information
Other versions
Malarial subjects : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 / Rohan Deb Roy.
id
99104331743506421
Malarial subjects : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 / Rohan Deb Roy.
id
99125266879206421