Abstract
This chapter focuses on representations of those practising Western medicine in British India. It reads the Indian Medical Gazette and Indian Medical Record, alongside journals published in the metropole, to scrutinise the depiction of a set of distinct (but sometimes overlapping) professional groups: ‘official’ and ‘independent’ medical men; practitioners of Indian and Anglo-Indian descent; and medical women. In this context, medical identities intersected with ideas about race, ethnicity, and gender. Meanwhile, in popular fiction for the British reading public, Henry Martineau Greenhow and Arthur Conan Doyle variously portrayed colonial medical men as imperial heroes or ambivalent and even villainous figures. Reflecting on competing constructions of practice in India, the chapter reveals the aspirations and anxieties that underpinned overarching images of British medicine’s imperialist mission.
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