Sengoopta, Chandak (2018) Treacherous minds, submissive bodies: corporeal technologies and human experimentation in colonial India. In: Deb Roy, R. and Attewell, G.N.A. (eds.) Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199486717.
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Abstract
Whilst historians have extensively explored how hospitals, asylums or sanitation projects in British India reflected colonial ideas of racial difference, we know rather less about the influence of racial theories and stereotypes on technologies such as fingerprinting, evolved incolonial Bengal as an administrative tool but found applicable across the world, or, at the other extreme, “mesmeric surgery,” discarded in the metropole but experiencing a brief second life in colonial Bengal. Exploring these contrasting projects, both grounded in British theories about the nature of the bodies and minds of “natives,” the chapter suggests that the historiography of colonial medicine needs to expand its scope to include issues related to governmentality, corporeal technologies and knowledge-transfer within and beyond the British Empire.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Chandak Sengoopta |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2017 11:00 |
| Last Modified: | 14 May 2025 10:20 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18415 |
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