Health and Difference

Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements

Alexandra Widmer, Veronika Lipphardt (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2016
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-271-5 (ISBN)

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In this volume, contributors follow physicians, demographers, nutrition experts, physical anthropologists, colonial agents, military officials and missionaries in colonies all over the globe, with specific attention to how they tried to sort out pressing health problems of populations they perceived to be diverse.

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.

Alexandra Widmer is an anthropologist who teaches at York University in Toronto. Situating the Pacific islands in a global context, her work focuses on colonial and post colonial dimensions of biomedicine, population thinking, reproduction and care.

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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

Erscheinungsdatum	07.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Studies of the Biosocial Society
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78533-271-6 / 1785332716
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-271-5 / 9781785332715
Zustand	Neuware