Tense networks: exploring medical professionalization, career making and practice in an age of global empire, through the lives and careers of Irish surgeons in the Indian Medical Service, c. 1850-1920
Journal: Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
Year: 2016

This thesis explores the historical relationships between the professionalization of medicine and Britain's Empire across the Indian subcontinent between c. 1850-1920. That relationship is focused on through the lives and careers of Irish surgeons who, over the course of the period, enlisted in the IMS, the GoI's paramilitary medical service. As a result of tracking the networks these men occupied between Ireland and India, professional status emerges as a series of negotiations between the Stat