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Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics

Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics

Chakrabarti, Pratik

Paperback

Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History, Book 22

Medical ReferenceLiterary CriticismSports General

ISBN10: 1580465900
ISBN13: 9781580465908
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Mar 1 2017
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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.

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