Imperial Pharmakon : Writing and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911028765203321
• Autore: Shetty Sandhya
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025; ©2025
• ISBN: 3-031-90877-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
• Disciplina: 362.1095409034
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: In Imperial Pharmakon, Sandhya Shetty tells a story of western medicine in colonial India that is multi-sided, full of surprises, and unexpected detours.Highlighting side effects and complications, she nuances the conventional narrative that medicine in colonial places was consistently oppressive and evenly commanding, or unrelievedly prosaic in.