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Bacteriology in British India : laboratory medicine and the tropics
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Bacteriology in British India : laboratory medicine and the tropics / Pratik Chakrabarti.
ISBN
9781580464086 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1580464084 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2012.
Physical Description
x, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 09, 2013
Series
Rochester studies in medical history,
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-283) and index.
Contents
Introduction : bacteriology in the tropics
Bacteriology in India : a moral paradigm
Moral geographies of tropical bacteriology
Imperial laboratories and animal experiments
"A land full of wild animals" : snakes, venoms, and imperial antidotes
Pasteurian paradigm and vaccine research in India
Pathogens and places : cholera research in the tropics
Conclusion.
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