Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics

(Part of the Rochester Studies in Medical History Series)

by Pratik Chakrabarti

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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.

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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1580465900

ISBN13:9781580465908

Release Date:March 2017

Publisher:University of Rochester Press

Length:316 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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(Part of the Rochester Studies in Medical History Series)

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