Medicine and Empire

Pratik Chakrabarti is Reader in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices (2004), Material and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century (2010) and Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (2012). He is also one of the editors of the journal Social History of Medicine.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Medicine in the Age of Commerce: 1600-18002. Plants, Medicine and Empire3. Medicine and the Colonial Armed Forces4. Colonialism, Climate and Race5. Imperialism and the Globalization of Disease6. Western Medicine in Colonial India7. Medicine and the Colonization of Africa8. Imperialism and Tropical Medicine9. Bacteriology and the Civilizing Mission10. Colonialism and Traditional MedicinesConclusion: The Colonial Legacies of Global Health.

'This is an extremely valuable work ... it fulfils but also exceeds the requirements of a textbook, for it offers an interpretative synthesis which is of value in its own right.' - Mark Harrison, Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University, UK 'The book provides a narrative history in relation to empire and situates that narrative within a wider understanding of the economic, political and military functions of empire; it introduces readers to the rich and varied historiography surrounding this topic; and provides a long background to the problems of contemporary medicine and international health.' - David Arnold, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK