Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960

Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960 / edited by Bernard Harris and Waltraud Ernst.

Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960 brings together current critical research into the role played by racial ideas in the production of medical knowledge, throwing new light on three centuries of racial and medical history.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harris, Bernard, 1961-, Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Series:Studies in the social history of medicine.
Subjects:
Social medicine > History.
Colonization > Health aspects > History.
Imperialism > Health aspects > History.
Science > Social aspects > History.
Medicine > History.
history of medicine.
MEDICAL > History.
Colonization > Health aspects
Imperialism > Health aspects
Science > Social aspects
Social medicine
Geneeskunde.
Rassendiscriminatie.
Kolonialisme.
Wetenschap.
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: historical and contemporary perspectives on race, science and medicine / Waltraud Ernst
  • Western medicine and racial constitutions: surgeon John Atkins' theory of polygenism and sleepy distemper in the 1730s / Norris Saakwa-Mante
  • From the land of the Bible to the Caucasus and beyond: the shifting ideas of the geographical origin of humankind / H.F. Augstein
  • Colonial policies, racial politics and the development of psychiatric institutions in early nineteenth-century British India / Waltraud Ernst
  • Racial categories and psychiatry in Africa: the asylum on Robben Island in the nineteenth century / Harriet Deacon
  • 'An ancient race outworn': malaria and race in colonial India, 1860-1930 / David Arnold
  • Tuberculosis and race in Britain and its empire, 1900-50 / Michael Worboys
  • Changing depictions of disease: race, representation and the history of 'mongolism' / Mark Jackson
  • Pro-alienism, anti-alienism and the medical profession in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Bernard Harris
  • A virulent strain: German bacteriology as scientific racism, 1890-1920 / Paul Weindling
  • 'Savage civilization': race, culture and mind in Britain, 1898-1939 / Mathew Thomson
  • 'New men, strange faces, other minds': Arthur Keith, race and the Piltdown affair (1912-53) / Jonathan Sawday.

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