Imperial hygiene : a critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health / Alison Bashford and Vere Harmsworth.

By:

Bashford, Alison, 1963-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Edition: PaperbackDescription: xv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781137429216

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DDC classification:

362.10994 BAS 23 018769

Contents:

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Lines of Hygiene, Boundaries of Rule Vaccination: Foreign Bodies, Contagion and Colonialism Smallpox: The Spaces and Subjects of Public Health Tuberculosis: Governing Healthy Citizens Leprosy: Segregation and Imperial Hygiene Quarantine: Imagining the Geo-Body of a Nation Foreign Bodies: Immigration, International Hygiene and White Australia Sex: Public Health, Social Hygiene and Eugenics Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography

Summary: This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized interwar immigrant, from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony, from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to imperial hygiene.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	362.10994 BAS 018769 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		018769

This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized interwar immigrant, from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony, from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to imperial hygiene.

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