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Health and Difference : Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements / ed. by Alexandra Widmer, Veronika Lipphardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies of the Biosocial Society ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
- Health.
- Social medicine--Cross-cultural studies.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists’ and administrators’ interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating documents, in reshaping landscapes and environments, and in fixing distances between humans, the book advances new understandings of the materiality of colonial institutional life and governance.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements
- 1 Race, Health and Colonial Politics in the Third Reich: Nauck and Giemsa’s Expedition to Espírito Santo, Brazil in 1936
- 2 ‘Ill-suited’ Populations in German Nauru: Race, Health and Labour under Company Administration, 1888–1914
- 3 The War on the Anopheles Mosquito: Malaria, Labour and Race in the New Hebrides, 1925–1945
- 4 Medical Missions – Racial Visions: Fighting Sleeping Sickness in Colonial Africa in the Early Twentieth Century
- 5 Colonial Histories of Cancers: Primary Liver Cancer in Africa, 1900s–1960s
- 6 Postponing Equality: From Colonial to International Nutritional Standards, 1932–1950
- 7 The Gender of Nutrition in French West Africa: Military Medicine, Intra-Colonial Marginality and Ethnos Theory in the Making of Malnutrition in Niger
- 8 Medical Demography in Interwar Angola: Measuring and Negotiating Health, Reproduction and Difference
- 9 Indo-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies: An Indo-European Analysis of a Paradoxical Colonial Category
- AFTERWORD Following Racial Paper Trails
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
- OCLC:
- 973191258
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