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Empire Under the Microscope Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935 /

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This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and it...

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Main Author: Taylor-Pirie, Emilie (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction Literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire
  • 2. The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology
  • 3. Expeditions into 'Central Man': Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity
  • 4. Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze
  • 5. Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter
  • 6. Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique
  • 7. Epilogue: Pan Narrans.

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