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The cultivation of whiteness: science, health and racial destiny in Australia
In nineteenth-century Australia, the main commentators on race and biological differences were doctors. The medical profession entertained serious anxieties about 'racial degeneration' of the white population in the new land. They feared non-white races as reservoirs of disease, and they held firm b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen
This riveting account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause and cure.Winner, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineWinner, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for So... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exertin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity (Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease)
A history of autoimmunity that validates the experience of patients while challenging assumptions about the distinction between the normal and the pathological.Winner of the NSW Premier's History Award of the Arts NSWAutoimmune diseases, which affect 5 to 10 percent of the population, are as unpredi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties
By the 1920s, psychoanalysis was a technology of both the late-colonial state and anti-imperialism. Insights from psychoanalysis shaped European and North American ideas about the colonial world and the character and potential of native cultures. Psychoanalytic discourse, from Freud's description of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Long Year: A 2020 Reader (Public Books Series)
by Eric Klinenberg • Joan Wallach Scott • Julie Livingston • Natalia Molina • Jun Li • Guobin Yang • Andrew Lakoff • Priscilla Wald • Warwick Anderson • Warren Breckman • Adam Tooze • Ananya Roy • Sophie Lewis • Neha Vora • Margaret O'Mara • Yarimar Bonilla • Merlin Chowkwanyun • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • Margaret Morganroth Gullette • Marcia Chatelain • Jacob A.C. Remes • Joanne Randa Nucho • Xiaowei Wang • Miguel Centeno • Jean-Paul Gagnon • Keisha N. Blain • Sulfikar Amir • Mustafa Dikeç • David Schmidt • Gautam Bhan • David S. Barnes • Isabelle Guérin • Andy Horowitz • Simon Balto • Éric Charmes • Max Rousseau • Michelle Cera • Gilles Guiheux • Ye Guo • Renyou Hou • Manon Laurent • Anne-Valérie Ruinet • Govindan Venkatasubramanian • Mathieu Ferry • Marine Al Dahdah • Sherihan Radi • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder • Rachel Nolan • Evan Lieberman • Julia Foulkes • Soledad Álvarez Velasco • Sophie Gonick • Alfonso Fierro • Erick Corrêa • Gianpaolo Biaocchi • Jake Carlson • Quentin Ravelli • Rikki J. Dean • Afsoun Afsahi • Emily Beausoleil • Selen A. Ercan • Cordula Dittmer • Daniel F. Lorenz • Kathryn Cai • Kavita SivaramakrishnanSome years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement: The Fortress Empire (Routledge Research in Transnationalism)
Under the impact of accelerated globalization, transnational integration and international security concerns, the geopolitics of Europe's borders and border regions has become an area of critical interest. The progressive enlargement of the EU has positioned its borders at the heart of recent discus... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007