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Imperial Hygiene : A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health
Bashford, A. author.
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : 2004.
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 racialised cordons sanitaires .
Bibliographic Information
| Format: | eBook |
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| Author: | Bashford, A. |
| Subject: |
Social medicine Great Britain Science World history Social structure Equality Imperialism Medical Sociology History of Britain and Ireland History of Science World History, Global and Transnational History Social Structure Imperialism and Colonialism |
| Publication Year: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : 2004. |
| ISBN: | 9786610438594 6610438595 9781280438592 1280438592 9780230508187 0230508189 |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Lines of hygiene, boundaries of rule; 1 Vaccination: Foreign bodies, contagion and colonialism; 2 Smallpox: The spaces and subjects of public health; 3 Tuberculosis: Governing healthy citizens; 4 Leprosy: Segregation and imperial hygiene; 5 Quarantine: Imagining the geo-body of a nation; 6 Foreign bodies: Immigration, international hygiene and white Australia; 7 Sex: Public health, social hygiene and eugenics; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index English Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-245) and index. |
| Course: |
HIST456 |