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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia
Warwick Anderson
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Description for The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia
Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JHM; JHMP; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 504.
In this lucid and original book, Warwick Anderson offers the first comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race and place. ""The Cultivation of Whiteness"" examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates. This is the first time such an analytic framework has been used anywhere in the history of medicine or of science. Anderson also provides the first full account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts. As the first extensive (and entertaining) historical survey of ideas about the peopling of Australia, it will ... Read more
In this lucid and original book, Warwick Anderson offers the first comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race and place. ""The Cultivation of Whiteness"" examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates. This is the first time such an analytic framework has been used anywhere in the history of medicine or of science. Anderson also provides the first full account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts. As the first extensive (and entertaining) historical survey of ideas about the peopling of Australia, it will ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522851694
SKU
V9780522851694
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About Warwick Anderson
Warwick Anderson, a medical doctor and historian of science, was founder of the Centre for the Study of Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. He is now Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health at the University of Wisconsin.
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