Health and Difference : : Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements / / ed. by Veronika Lipphardt, Alexandra Widmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Warwick,; Bado, Jean-Paul,; Bizzo, Maria Letícia Galluzzi,; Coghe, Samuël,; Cooper, Barbara M.,; Ehlers, Sarah,; Kühnast, Antje,; Lipphardt, Veronika,; Mitchell, Jean,; Pols, Hans,; Silva, André Felipe Cândido da,; Widmer, Alexandra,
• HerausgeberIn: Lipphardt, Veronika,; Widmer, Alexandra,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the Biosocial Society ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists’ and administrators’ interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating documents, in reshaping landscapes and environments, and in fixing distances between humans, the book advances new understandings of the materiality of colonial institutional life and governance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements -- 1 Race, Health and Colonial Politics in the Third Reich: Nauck and Giemsa’s Expedition to Espírito Santo, Brazil in 1936 -- 2 ‘Ill-suited’ Populations in German Nauru: Race, Health and Labour under Company Administration, 1888–1914 -- 3 The War on the Anopheles Mosquito: Malaria, Labour and Race in the New Hebrides, 1925–1945 -- 4 Medical Missions – Racial Visions: Fighting Sleeping Sickness in Colonial Africa in the Early Twentieth Century -- 5 Colonial Histories of Cancers: Primary Liver Cancer in Africa, 1900s–1960s -- 6 Postponing Equality: From Colonial to International Nutritional Standards, 1932–1950 -- 7 The Gender of Nutrition in French West Africa: Military Medicine, Intra-Colonial Marginality and Ethnos Theory in the Making of Malnutrition in Niger -- 8 Medical Demography in Interwar Angola: Measuring and Negotiating Health, Reproduction and Difference -- 9 Indo-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies: An Indo-European Analysis of a Paradoxical Colonial Category -- AFTERWORD Following Racial Paper Trails -- Index