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Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire

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Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

Medical ReferenceTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Asian History

ISBN10: 0415627540
ISBN13: 9780415627542
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 29 2012
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of 'pathology' - the science of the origin, nature, and course of diseases - the author develops and challenges a burgeoning literature on colonial medicine, moving beyond discussions of state medicine and the control of epidemics to everyday life, to show how medicine was a fundamental ideology of empire. Related to this point, and engaging with postcolonial histories of biopower and modernity, the book highlights the use of this racially grounded medicine in the formulation of modern selves and subjectivities in late colonial India. In tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, the book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism.

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