The first book to provide a social and cultural history of
bacteriology in colonial India, situating it at the confluence of
colonial medical practices, institutionalization, and social
movements. During the nineteenth century, European scientists and
physicians considered the tropics the natural home of pathogens.
Hot and miasmic, the tropical world was the locus of disease, for
Euopeans the great enemy of civilization. Inthe late nineteenth
century when bacteriological laboratories and institutions were
introduced to British India, they were therefore as much an
imperial mission to cleanse and civilize a tropical colony as a
medical one to eradicate disease. Bacteriology offered a panacea in
colonial India, a way by which the multifarious political, social,
environmental, and medical problems and anxieties, intrinsically
linked to its diseases, could have a single resolution.
Bacteriology in British India is the first book to provide a social
and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating
it within the confluence of advances in germ theory, Pastuerian
vaccines, colonial medicine, laboratory science, and British
imperialism. It recounts the genesis of bacteriology and laboratory
medicine in India through a complex history of conflict and
alignment between Pasteurism and British imperial medicine. By
investigating an array of laboratory notes, medical literature, and
literary sources, the volume links colonial medical research with
issues of poverty, race, nationalism, and imperial attitudes toward
tropical climate andwildlife, contributing to a wide field of
scholarship like the history of science and medicine, sociology of
science, and cultural history. Pratik Chakrabarti is Chair in
History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester.
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