| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 300 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in the social history of medicine
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Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social medicine -- History.
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Social medicine. |
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History. |
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Colonization -- Health aspects -- History.
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Colonization -- Health aspects. |
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Colonization. |
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Imperialism -- Health aspects -- History.
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Imperialism -- Health aspects. |
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Imperialism. |
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Science -- Social aspects -- History.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Social Medicine -- history. |
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Racial Groups -- history. |
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Social Sciences -- history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Harris, Bernard, 1961-
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Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415181526 (DLC) 98055200 (OCoLC)40535162 |
| ISBN |
0203171322 (electronic book) |
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9780203171325 (electronic book) |
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9780203025420 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0203025423 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780415181525 |
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0415181526 |
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