At around seven in the evening on 1 September 1743 in the French Indian colony of Pondichéry, Santouche heard screaming […]
Call in the Midwife: Gendered Medical Knowledge and Colonial Intermediaries in French India
On October 29th, 1743 at seven o’clock in the morning in the city of Pondichéry–a former French colony in South […]
“Mistreatment by Words and Blows”: Domestic Violence between Lived Realities and Colonial Meanings
The evidence of domestic violence in eighteenth-century Pondichéry – France’s former colony in South Asia – resides in what might […]
Fetal Remains, Knowledge, and the Making of Early Modern Monsters
In 1734, scholars at France’s Royal Academy of Medicine encountered something unique: a tiny, nearly perfect replica of a fetus […]
A Tale of Two Deaths: Chronic Illness, Race, and the Medicalization of Suicide
On a Thursday morning in 1726, French colonial officials in Pondichéry – France’s principal colonial holding on India’s southeastern coast […]
Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry
Jacques Albert, the surgeon-major of Pondichéry, India, probably thought that Marie Cuperly was “good for it” when it came to […]
