Malarial Subjects
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 categ...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-357122025-01-26T19:36:32Z Malarial Subjects Deb Roy, Rohan Malaria disease nineteenth century Cinchona Presidencies and provinces of British India Quinine thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-09-24 12:46:37 2020-04-01T12:22:34Z 2017 book 1001535 OCN: 1076629019 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28423 9781316771617 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35712 eng Science in History open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28423/1/Bookshelf_NBK481419.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28423/1/Bookshelf_NBK481419.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28423/1/Bookshelf_NBK481419.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28423/1/Bookshelf_NBK481419.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/28423/1/Bookshelf_NBK481419.pdf Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781316771617 10.1017/9781316771617 12615a55-20f1-4eb5-a6c9-5eb6541f63e5 Wellcome Trust 9781316771617 Wellcome 350 Cambridge, UK open access |
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