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Venomous Encounters : Snakes, Vivisection and Scientific Medicine in Colonial Australia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Imperialism SeriesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526106278
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Venomous EncountersDDC classification:
  • 615.942
LOC classification:
  • QP632.V46 .H633 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Studies in imperialism -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Serpents and settlers: the colonial animal matrix, 1788-1840 -- 2 Vivisection in the pub: public spectacles and plebeian expertise, 1840-80 -- 3 Ontological conjunctions: dogs, snakes, venoms and germs, 1840-68 -- 4 In vivo veritas: the amoral ascent of colonial vivisection, 1868-76 -- 5 Legislators and other animals: foregrounding vivisection, 1876-95 -- 6 Immunology and indigeneity: species, serums and localisms, 1890-1914 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Venomous encounters presents a radically new view of the role of science and scientific methodology in the colonies. It explores the role of snakes, snakebite and snake venom in the emerging science of 19th-century Australia and India, the neglected significance of inter-colony exchanges and conflicts and the importance of vivisection to science.
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Cover -- Studies in imperialism -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Serpents and settlers: the colonial animal matrix, 1788-1840 -- 2 Vivisection in the pub: public spectacles and plebeian expertise, 1840-80 -- 3 Ontological conjunctions: dogs, snakes, venoms and germs, 1840-68 -- 4 In vivo veritas: the amoral ascent of colonial vivisection, 1868-76 -- 5 Legislators and other animals: foregrounding vivisection, 1876-95 -- 6 Immunology and indigeneity: species, serums and localisms, 1890-1914 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Venomous encounters presents a radically new view of the role of science and scientific methodology in the colonies. It explores the role of snakes, snakebite and snake venom in the emerging science of 19th-century Australia and India, the neglected significance of inter-colony exchanges and conflicts and the importance of vivisection to science.

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