Bacteriology in British India
Subtitle: laboratory medicine and the tropics
By: Pratik Chakrabarti
Series: Rochester studies in medical history -- v. 22
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781580464086
Subjects: Tropical medicine; Medical bacteriology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: bacteriology in the tropics; title: Bacteriology in India: a moral paradigm; title: Moral geographies of tropical bacteriology; title: Imperial laboratories and animal experiments; title: A land full of wild animals: snakes, venoms, and imperial antidotes; title: Pasteurian paradigm and vaccine research in India; title: Pathogens and places: cholera research in the tropics; title: Conclusion.