The Cultivation of Whiteness
Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia
$79.33
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2005
Summary
In this prize-winning study, Warwick Anderson offers the first comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race and place.In nineteenth-century Australia, the main commentators on race and biological differences were doctors. But the medical profession entertained serious anxieties about the possibility of “racial degeneration” of the white population in the new land, and medical and social scientists dedicated themselves to the pursuit of a purified and vigorous wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522851694 |
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| ISBN-10: | 052285169X |
| Author: | Warwick Anderson |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2005 |
| Weight: | 730g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 31mm |
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About The Author
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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