TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deb Roy,Rohan
TI  - Malarial subjects: empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 
T2  - Science in history
SN  - 9781316771617 (ebook)
AV  - RC164.I5 D43 2017
U1  - 616.9/362/009541409034 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Malaria
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Medicine
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2017); Open Access title
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316771617
ER  -