Imperial hygiene : a critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health /

This book is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies: from Victorian vaccines to the pathologised interwar immigrant; from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony; from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to imperial hygiene. Taking British colonialism and White Au...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bashford, Alison, 1963-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndsmills [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Subjects:	Medical policy > Australia > History. Public health > Political aspects > Australia > History. Imperialism > Health aspects > Australia > History. Communicable diseases > Australia > Prevention > History. Public Health > history > Australia. Colonialism > history > Australia. Hygiene > history > Australia. Politics > Australia. HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues. MEDICAL > Public Health. MEDICAL > Health Policy. HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General. MEDICAL > Diseases. MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery. Electronic books.
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Table of 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
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