: empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 Deb Roy, Rohan. creator Rohan Deb Roy text United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , 2017 monographic eng

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xv, 332 pages : illustrations : 26cm. 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 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 / Rohan Deb Roy. Cinchona Colonialism history History Malaria Quinine history 616.936 ROY 9781316623619 : Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F,49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. 230507 20230507183020.0