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020 _a9781316623619
028 _a: Zafaa Books & Distributors
_b: 313/56F,49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.
_c: ZBD0052
_d: 01/05/2023
082 _a616.936 ROY
100 _aDeb Roy, Rohan.
245 _aMalarial subjects
_b : empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909.
_c/ Rohan Deb Roy.
260 _a, United Kingdom
_b: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
_c, 2017.
300 _axv, 332 pages
_b : illustrations
_c: 26cm.
365 _b2713
505 _aIntroduction: 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
520 _aMalaria 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
650 _aCinchona
650 _aColonialism history
650 _aHistory
650 _aMalaria
650 _aQuinine history
700 _aRohan Deb Roy
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