03346oam 2200589 450 991028640740332120210805204733.01-316-78035-X1-316-78196-8(CKB)4100000002891546(EXLCZ)99410000000289154620190428h20172017 fy 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMalarial subjects empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 /Rohan Deb RoyCambridge, United Kingdom :Cambridge University Press,2017©20171 online resource (xv, 332 pages) illustrations; digital file(s)Science in historyPrint version: Deb Roy, Rohan. Malarial subjects. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107172364 1107172365 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: side effects of empire -- "Fairest of Peruvian maids": planting Cinchonas in British India -- "An imponderable poison": shifting geographies of a diagnostic category -- "A Cinchona disease": making Burdwan fever -- Beating about the bush": manufacturing quinine in a colonial factory -- Of "losses gladly borne": feeding quinine, warring mosquitoes -- Epilogue: empire, medicine and nonhumans.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.Science in history (Cambridge University Press)Empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909MalariaIndiaHistory19th centuryMalariaIndiaHistory20th centuryImperialismIndiaMalariahistoryColonialismhistoryQuininehistoryCinchonaMosquito VectorsElectronic books.MalariaHistoryMalariaHistoryImperialismMalariahistory.Colonialismhistory.Quininehistory.Cinchona.Mosquito Vectors.ClassificationDeb Roy Rohan899267UkMaJRUBOOK9910286407403321Malarial subjects2009137UNINA