Ishita Pande

Gebundenes Buch

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Symptoms of Empire

Beschreibung

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in colonial India. Tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, the book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780415778152
• ISBN-10: 0415778158
• Artikelnr.: 27383639