Bacteriology in British India : laboratory medicine and the tropics

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    • Chakrabarti, Pratik

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Bacteriology in British India : laboratory medicine and the tropics

Pratik Chakrabarti

(Rochester studies in medical history)

University of Rochester Press, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-283) and index

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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 ofManchester.

目次

Introduction Bacteriology in India: A Moral Paradigm Moral Geographies of Tropical Bacteriology Imperial Laboratories and Animal Experiments "A Land Full of Wild Animals": Snakes, Venoms, andImperial Antidotes Pasteurian Paradigm and Vaccine Research in India Pathogens and Places: Cholera Research in the Tropics Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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