Publications

BOOKS

Fungible Bodies: Disability Histories of British India, 1850-1950, Under Contract with University of Illinois Press, (Forthcoming, 2024)

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Sometimes the Yoni Is Like a Jasmine Flower:” The Vayattati’s Hands in Twentieth Century Kerala,” Bulletin for the History of Medicine (Accepted, Forthcoming)

“Enumerating Infirmity: Disability, Demography, and Empire, 1820–1950,” Osiris, Volume 39 (Accepted and Forthcoming)

“Where is the “Public” in American Public Health? Moving from individual responsibility to collective action” Cecília Tomori, Dabney P. Evans, Aziza Ahmed, Aparna Nair, and Benjamin Mason Meier, eClinicalMedicine 2022;45: 101341 Published online 12 March 2022

“Your health is in your hands? US CDC COVID-19 mask guidance reveals the moral foundations of public health” Cecilia Tomori, Dabney. P Ahmed, Aziza: Evans, Benjamin Mason Meier, Aparna Nair, EClinicalMedicine, 2021

‘Monstrous Tumours’: Elephantiasis between Disability and Contagion in British India, 1850–1950” Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 27, Issue 2, April 2022, Pages 338–345, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcac018

'Of Ear Trumpets, Audiphones, and the Language of the Fingers (Kar Pallavi Bhasha): Technologies for the Deaf in British India' in Bess Williamson and Elizabeth Guffney, eds. Making Disability Modern: Design Histories (London: Bloomsbury), 2020

These Curly-Bearded, Olive-Skinned Warriors': Prosthetics, Rehabilitation and the Disabled Sepoy in the First World War, 1914-1920, Social History of Medicine, 2019

"Like Bananas with Brown Spots’: Epilepsy, Embodiment, Vulnerability and Resilience in South India’, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2019

Vaccinating against ‘Vasoori’: Eradicating Smallpox in the ‘Model’ Princely State of Travancore, 1801-1945, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 2019

‘They Shall See His Face’: Blindness in British India, 1850-1950’, Medical History, (April), 2017

‘Magic Lanterns, Mother-craft and School Medical Inspections: Fashioning the ‘Modern’ Body in Travancore, 1880-1950’, Tapasam Journal of Kerala Studies

‘Children ‘Left Behind’ and Negotiating Parental Migration: Preliminary Results from a State-wide Survey’, in India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, New Delhi: Routledge, (with S. I. Rajan) 

‘The Social and Psychological Implications of Epilepsy’, in Cynthia Harden, S.V. Thomas and Torbjorn Tomson, eds. Epilepsy in Women, Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, (with S. V. Thomas)

‘Confronting the Stigma of Epilepsy,’ Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology (with S.V Thomas)

“‘The Indifferent Many and the Hostile Few’: An Assessment of Smallpox Vaccination in Travancore, 1800-1940”, CDS Paper Series.

'An Egyptian Infection’: War, Plague and the Quarantines in Egypt and British Madras, 1802”, Hygiea Internationalis