Dr Patricia Barton

Honorary Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde

Research

Present research: the misuse and illegal market in quinine supplies in British India; drug standardisation and the history of patent medicines in South Asia: the history of pharmacy in South Asia; the environmental impact of water technology, specifically in the spread of epidemic disease, in British India; public health policies for women and children in South Asia. I am currently completing Quacks and Adulterers: Colonial South Asia’s Other Drug Problem.

Publications

Three contributions including “Antibiotics” in Readers' Guide to British History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003)

Entry on "Flora Annie Steel" for Bibliographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, Elizabeth Ewan, Sue Innes and Sian Reynolds (eds.) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006)

“Drugs and Narcotics: The Pharmaceutical Industry”, “Drugs and Drug Trade: South Asia”, “Drugs and Narcotics: The Science of Drugs” and “Drugs and Narcotics: Drugs and the Drug Trade in South East Asia” in Peter Stearns and Marc Jason Gilbert (eds.) Encyclopedia of The Modern World (New York: OUP, 2006 forthcoming)

"Powders, Potions and Tablets: Circumventing the Official Quinine Supplies in British India", in James Mills and Patricia Barton (eds) Drugs and Empires (forthcoming)

Recent Papers

"Feminism, anti- feminism or separate sphere feminism: Unravelling the Philanthropic Motives of Flora Annie Steel in Late Nineteenth Century India", Tender Mercies and Benevolent Aspirations, Conference of the Midlands Women's History Network, University of Wolverhampton, November 2001

"Flora Annie Steel: Philanthropy and Feminism in British India", "Writing Biography: Comparative perspectives", Scottish Women's History Network Conference, University of Strathclyde, May 2002

“The Great Quinine Fraud: Legality Issues in the Non- Narcotic Drug Trade in British
India”, International Conference on Drugs and Alcohol, Huron University College,
London, Ontario, May 2004

“Medical Murders”: Safeguarding the Supply of Prescription Drugs in Inter-war India, 33rd Annual Conference on South Asia, October 2004, University of Wisconsin-Madison

‘Rogue Trading’: Defining Non-Narcotic Drug Offences in Colonial South Asia, 34th Annual Conference on South Asia, October 2005, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Imperialism, Race and Therapeutics: The Legacy of Medicalizing the “Colonial Body”, Race, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technology Conference, April 7-8, 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contact

Email: p.barton@strath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 141 548 2932
Fax: +44 (0) 141 552 8509
Department of History
University of Strathclyde
McCance Building, 16 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XQ