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Malarial Subjects - Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (Hardcover)
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Malarial Subjects - Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (Hardcover)
Series: Science in History
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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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