Offers the comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race and place. This work examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates. It also provides an account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts.
Offers the comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race and place. This work examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates. It also provides an account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Warwick Anderson teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he is Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics; Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health; and Professor of the History of Science, Science and Technology Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies. He is the author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines, also published by Duke University Press.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 The Temperate South 1. Antipodean Britons 11 2. A Cultivated Society 41 The Northern Tropics 3. No Place for a White Man 73 4. The Making of the Tropical White Man 95 5. White Triumph in the Tropics? 139 6. Whitening the Nation 165 Aboriginal Australia 7. From Deserts the Prophets Come 191 8. The Reproductive Frontier 225 Conclusion: Biology and Nation 253 Abbreviations 259 Notes 261 Bibliography of Works Cited 329 Index 381
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 The Temperate South 1. Antipodean Britons 11 2. A Cultivated Society 41 The Northern Tropics 3. No Place for a White Man 73 4. The Making of the Tropical White Man 95 5. White Triumph in the Tropics? 139 6. Whitening the Nation 165 Aboriginal Australia 7. From Deserts the Prophets Come 191 8. The Reproductive Frontier 225 Conclusion: Biology and Nation 253 Abbreviations 259 Notes 261 Bibliography of Works Cited 329 Index 381
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