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“Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry”

This article presents part of the research Jakob Burnham has been conducting in his 2021-2022 Medical Humanities Research Fellowship. Burnham’s research explores the centrality of medical professionals to France’s colonial empire, and in this publication he focuses on what medical bills can tell us about the history of French colonialism in India.

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