University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Cabinet of Natural History > Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history

  Browse A-Z

Log in

University Account External (via Google)

🔐 Log In

Information on

Subscribing to talksdetails Finding a talkdetails Adding a talkdetails Disseminating talksdetails Help and Documentationdetails

ℹ️ Information

Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history

Download to your calendar using vCal

If you have a question about this talk, please contact David Allan Feller .

In the late nineteenth century, British medical texts began to characterize the colonial tropics as hazardous, inhospitable environments threatening refined European constitutions with a multitude of exotic diseases, to the point that colonials returning from tropical areas were “profiled” as medically problematic, i.e., “tropical invalids.” To close our Michaelmas Cabinet Term this coming Monday, 27 November, Salim Al-Gailani (HPS, Cambridge University) will explore how former Indian medical men invested the return of ‘tropical invalids’ to Britain with physiological, psychological and cultural meaning, and in that course described essential elements of the colonial experience and how it helped to shape the communication and reception of medical knowledge across the British Empire.

This talk is part of the Cabinet of Natural History series.

This talk is included in these lists:

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.

Other lists

Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St) The Yusuf Hamied Centre Theatre in person & via zoom

Other talks

TBC Online Causal Inference Semina Director's Briefing Title to be confirmed Machine Learning for Spectral Geometry and Vice Versa Title to be confirmed
 

© 2006-2025 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity