Introduction; Chapter 1 Public Anatomies; Chapter 2 Tools, Tinctures, and Texts; Chapter 3 Female Prescriptions; Chapter 4 Writing Reform; Chapter 101; Epilogue;
Narin Hassan is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
'Diagnosing Empire treats medical culture as one of the traveling idioms through which a variety of observers, both metropolitan and "native," apprehended the modern imperial world. Reading an array of objects - from medical texts to medical "cases" of all kinds - Hassan reveals the affinities between clinical knowledge, gendered identity and colonial power. Keen to link histories of women's writing with mobility and the rise of the professional female doctor, she offers a unique and readable account of medicine's interpretive power as well as its capacity to carry social and cultural ways of knowing in the pathways of empire's global circuitry.' Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 'Overall, the book brings together several travel narratives by British women who travelled to non-western countries as part of an entourage or later, professionally, on their own and who practised medicine using western therapeutics and tools on non-western communities... this book will be a useful reference for those interested in nineteenth-century medical travel literature.' Social History of Medicine ’...make[s] a significant contribution to the history of medicine, western science, and colonialism.’ Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 'By focusing on the textual and literary analysis of selected women’s writings and documenting their participation in the projects of Western medicine and empire, Narin Hassan offers a unique vantage point for understanding the broader history of imperial and colonial medicine.' Bulletin of the History of Medicine
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