Ishita Pande

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal (eBook, PDF)

Symptoms of Empire

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136972416
• Artikelnr.: 42983254

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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