Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics

by Pratik Chakrabarti

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. In the 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...

• 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"