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Imperial Pharmakonwriting and medicine in the long nineteenth century /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Imperial Pharmakonby Sandhya Shetty.
其他題名:	writing and medicine in the long nineteenth century /
作者:	Shetty, Sandhya.
出版者:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
面頁冊數:	xiv, 448 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	MedicineHistory19th century.India
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-90877-4
ISBN:	9783031908774$q(electronic bk.)

Imperial Pharmakonwriting and medicine in the long nineteenth century /
Shetty, Sandhya.

Imperial Pharmakonwriting and medicine in the long nineteenth century /[electronic resource] :by Sandhya Shetty. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xiv, 448 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine,2634-6443. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine..

Chapter 01: Introduction: Imperial Pharmakon, Writing/Medicine -- PART I: CHEMISTRIES -- Chapter 02: Necrospheres of Empire: Anatomy in the Age of Enterprise, 1835-1849 -- Chapter 03: Malaria and Melancholia: Writing Life in Anglo-India -- Chapter 04: Dying to be a Lady Doctor: Anandibai Joshi and the Gyn/ecology of Colonial Medicine -- PART II: ENMITIES -- Chapter 05: Kipling's Medicine: In Camp and Gynaeceum -- Chapter 06: Incontinent Subcontinent: Nations Must be Defended -- PART III: QUACKERY -- Chapter 07: "The Quack Whom We Know": Experiments in Nursing Hospitality -- Conclusion.

Full of surprises and unexpected detours, Imperial Pharmakon tells a multi-sided story of western medicine in colonial conditions. Highlighting side effects and complications, the book nuances the conventional narrative that colonial medical discourse was oppressive, commanding, and unrelievedly prosaic. Underscoring nineteenth-century medicine's entanglement in various projects of colonial poeisis, the book explicates its grand rhetoric, its sluggish humors, and its often-violent administrative argot on the one hand, and its seductive address, its creation of new desires and proximities, and its allyship with endeavors beyond its remit, on the other. This examination of medicine's reversible moods and modes in colonial conditions is anchored in British India. Given its long exposure to imperial rule and administration, colonial India offers a unique set of historical materials that facilitates the book's long and wide view of its subject. A transimperial lens articulates colonial and metropolitan medical history, making the networked relationality of medicine newly visible and meaningful while the longue durée approach illumines broad shifts that develop and disclose themselves over time. The singularity of the British Indian case also prompts this study's reimagination of the geographies, actors, and issues deemed relevant in scholarship within established fields such as literature and medicine and history of colonial medicine. Imperial Pharmakon de-provincializes the former and deepens the latter by rendering the question of medicine in a different key. Emphasizing the analytic salience of literary and postcolonial forms of knowing, this study also brings a fresh ecological perspective to the question of medicine in coloniality. Moving across individual and collective scales and human/nonhuman divides, it offers granular readings of historical events and actors while keeping an eye on perimedical figures (the animal), practices (vegetarianism) and concepts (friend/enemy) that tacitly structure medicine's primordial capacity for hostility and hospitality, its biopolitical grammar, and its ecological unconscious. Sandhya Shetty is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

ISBN: 9783031908774$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-90877-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1003933
Medicine
--History--India--19th century.

LC Class. No.: R606

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1095409034

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