Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal
Subtitle: symptoms of empire
By: Ishita Pande.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780415778152
Subjects: Medicine -- India -- Bengal -- History; Imperialism -- History; Bengal (India) -- Race relations -- History; Bengal (India) -- Politics and government; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal; title: Race and place; title: Diagnosing character: liberal racialism and the black Aryan; title: Standard deviation: "national character" and a science of government; title: Blood and morals; title: Seeing reason: dissection, history of medicine and English education; title: City and citizenship; title: Sanitary subjects: fevers, filth and freedom in a dual city; title: Sensing modernity: civility, class and citizenship in a sanitary city; title: Sex and public; title: Degenerate nation: sex, public and a government of self; title: Epilogue: Bengali modern.