Bacteriology in British India : Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics

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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. It contributes to a wide field of scholarship like imperial and South Asian history, history of science...

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Autor principal: Chakrabarti, Pratik (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tropical medicine.
Medical bacteriology.
MEDICAL > History.
Medecine tropicale > Inde > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine tropicale > Inde > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Bacteriologie medicale > Inde > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Bacteriologie medicale > Inde > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Tropical medicine > India > History > 20th century.
Tropical medicine > India > History > 19th century.
Medical bacteriology > India > History > 20th century.
Medical bacteriology > India > History > 19th century.
India.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Bacteriology in the Tropics; 1. Bacteriology in India: A Moral Paradigm; 2. Moral Geographies of Tropical Bacteriology; 3. Imperial Laboratories and Animal Experiments; 4. "A Land Full of Wild Animals": Snakes, Venoms, and Imperial Antidotes; 5. Pasteurian Paradigm and Vaccine Research in India; 6. Pathogens and Places: Cholera Research in the Tropics; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.

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