Imperial hygiene : a critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health / Alison Bashford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bashford, Alison, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--Australia--History.

Medical policy.

Public health--Political aspects--Australia--History.

Public health.

Imperialism--Health aspects--Australia--History.

Imperialism.

Communicable diseases--Australia--Prevention--History.

Communicable diseases.

History.

Imperialism--Health aspects.

Public health--Political aspects.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized interwar immigrant, from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony, from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to imperial hygiene. Taking British colonialism and White Australia as case studies, the book examines public health as spatialized biopolitical governance between 1850 and 1950. Colonial management of race dovetailed with public health into new boundaries of rule, into racialized "cordons sanitaires."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-245) and index.

ISBN:

140390488X

OCLC:

52040082