Bacteriology in British India : laboratory medicine and the tropics / Pratik Chakrabarti.

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2012.

x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-283) and index.

Introduction : bacteriology in the tropics -- Bacteriology in India : a moral paradigm -- Moral geographies of tropical bacteriology -- Imperial laboratories and animal experiments -- "A land full of wild animals" : snakes, venoms, and imperial antidotes -- Pasteurian paradigm and vaccine research in India -- Pathogens and places : cholera research in the tropics -- Conclusion.