Empire under the Microscope : Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885-1935.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
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Table of Contents:
- Empire Under the Microscope
- Acknowledgements
- Praise for Empire Under the Microscope
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire
- ScienceHumanities
- Medicine, Gender, and Nation
- Mapping Empire
- The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology
- Arthur and Empire
- Alexander, Shakespeare, and Apollo: Literary Metaphor and Scientific Idealism
- Descent into the East: Tropical Mythologies
- Fairy Tales and Afterlives
- Expeditions into 'Central Man': Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity
- Pioneers, Poets, and Prophets
- 'It's a Heroic Thing to Do': Exploring the Microscopic Frontier
- Fantasy Worlds and Fantasy Medicine
- 'Puny Carpet Knights' and Muscular Christianity
- Medicine as New Romance
- Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze
- Heroes of Real Life: Medicine and Empire
- Medical Detectives and 20-20 Vision
- (Re)diagnosing the Colonial Encounter
- Criminal Natures
- Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter
- Stranger than Fiction
- Race and Illness
- Emotional Epidemiology
- Tropical Neurasthenia and 'White-Man Lethargy'
- Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique
- The Violence of Medicine and the Fever of War
- Insect Wars and Microbial Thugs
- Vampires and Vectors
- Biting with Intent: Agency and Revenge
- Epilogue: Pan Narrans
- Bibliography
- Index.