Health and Difference (eBook, PDF)

Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements
Redaktion: Widmer, Alexandra; Lipphardt, Veronika

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785332722
• Artikelnr.: 48039107

Autorenporträt

Veronika Lipphardt is Professor for Science and Technology Studies at the Freiburg University. She works on the history of the life sciences, particularly physical anthropology and human population genetics in their political, social and cultural contexts.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial
Engagements
Veronika Lipphardt and Alexandra Widmer
Chapter 1. Race, Health and Colonial Politics in the Third Reich: Nauck and
Giemsa's Expedition to Espírito Santo, Brazil in 1936
André Felipe Cândido da Silva
Chapter 2. 'Ill-suited' Populations in German Nauru: Race, Health and
Labour under Company Administration, 1888-1914
Antje Kühnast
Chapter 3. The War on the Anopheles Mosquito: Malaria, Labour and Race in
the New Hebrides, 1925-1945
Jean Mitchell
Chapter 4. Medical Missions - Racial Visions: Fighting Sleeping Sickness in
Colonial Africa in the Early Twentieth Century
Sarah Ehlers
Chapter 5. Colonial Histories of Cancers: Primary Liver Cancer in Africa,
1900s-1960s
Jean-Paul Bado
Chapter 6. Postponing Equality: From Colonial to International Nutritional
Standards, 1932-1950
Maria Letícia Galluzzi Bizzo
Chapter 7. The Gender of Nutrition in French West Africa: Military
Medicine, Intra-Colonial Marginality and Ethnos Theory in the Making of
Malnutrition in Niger
Barbara M. Cooper
Chapter 8. Medical Demography in Interwar Angola: Measuring and Negotiating
Health, Reproduction and Difference
Samuël Coghe
Chapter 9. Indo-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies: An Indo-European
Analysis of a Paradoxical Colonial Category
Hans Pols
Afterword: Following Racial Paper Trails
Warwick Anderson
Index