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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 610/.9
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - History; Colonization - Health aspects - History; Imperialism - Health aspects - History; Science - Social aspects - History; Social medicine - History
• Altri autori: HarrisBernard <1961-> ErnstWaltraud <1955->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: historical and contemporary perspectives on race, science and medicine; Western medicine and racial constitutions: surgeon John Atkins' theory of polygenism and sleepy distemper in the 1730's; From the land of the Bible to the Caucasus and beyond: the shifting ideas of the geographical origin of humankind; Colonial policies, racial politics and the development of psychiatric institutions in early nineteenth-century British India; Racial categories and psychiatry in Africa: the asylum on Robben Island in the nineteenth century ; 'An ancient race outworn': malaria and race in colonial India, 1860 1930 Tuberculosis and race in Britain and its empire, 1900 50; Changing depictions of disease: race, representation and the history of 'mongolism'; Pro-alienism, anti-alienism and the medical profession in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain; A virulent strain: German bacteriology as scientific racism, 1890 1920; 'Savage civilisation': race, culture and mind in Britain, 1898 1939; 'New men, strange faces, other minds': Arthur Keith, race and the Piltdown affair (1912 53); Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the construction of racial categories.
• Titolo autorizzato: Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960
• ISBN: 1-134-67644-1; 1-134-67645-X; 1-280-33204-2; 9786610332045; 0-203-02542-3; 0-203-17132-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817065903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine