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Science, medicine and new imperial histories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Rohan Deb Roy
Rohan Deb Roy
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Transnational History of Science , September 2012 , pp. 443 - 450
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15 Stoler and Cooper, ‘Between metropole and colony’, op. cit. (3).

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