Health and Difference : Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements /

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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 circulat...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Widmer, Alexandra (Editor), Lipphardt, Veronika (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Series:Studies of the Biosocial Society.
Subjects:
Health > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Social medicine > Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies.
Health Status Disparities
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Santé > Aspect social > Études transculturelles.
Études transculturelles.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Health > Social aspects.
Social medicine.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Health and Difference; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction
  • Health and Difference; Chapter 1
  • Race, Health and Colonial Politics in the Third Reich; Chapter 2
  • 'Ill-suited' Populations in German Nauru; Chapter 3
  • The War on the Anopheles Mosquito; Chapter 4
  • Medical Missions
  • Racial Visions; Chapter 5
  • Colonial Histories of Cancers; Chapter 6
  • Postponing Equality; Chapter 7
  • The Gender of Nutrition in French West Africa; Chapter 8
  • Medical Demography in Interwar Angola; Chapter 9
  • Indo-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies.
  • Afterword
  • Following Racial Paper TrailsIndex.

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