Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire

ISBN-13: 9780415627542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 262 str.

Ishita Pande

Opis

Tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, this book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Race and Place  2. Diagnosing Character: Liberal Racialism and the Black Aryan  3. Standard Deviation: ‘National Character’ and a Science of Government  Part 2: Blood and Morals  4. Seeing Reason: Dissection, History and English Education  Part 3: City and Citizenship  5. Sanitary Subjects: Fevers, Filth and Freedom in a 'Dual City''  6. Sensing Modernity: Civility, Class and Citizenship in a 'Sanitary City'  Part 4: Sex and Public  7. Degenerate Nation: Sex, Public and a Government of Self  Epilogue: Bengali Modern

O autorze

Ishita Pande is Assistant Professor of History at Queen's University, Ontario. Her research interests include the history of science and medicine, cities, gender, race and childhood.