ANNOUNCEMENT - NEW BOOK
RACE, SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, c.1700-1960
This book provides a rich selection of critical research into the
complex interaction between racial ideas and medical knowledge and
practice during the last three centuries. It grapples with the
definitions of 'race' and the issue of its historical specificity.
The authors seek not only to assess the wider structures of political
and economic power within which racialized medical theories and
practices are situated, but also to examine the heterogeneity of
racial discourse within particular local contexts. The intersection
of 'race' with other social and political relations, such as gender,
social class and nationalism is emphasised.
_Race, Science and Medicine_ is a major interdisciplinary
reassessment of 'race' in relation to medical theories and practices.
The wide range of approaches and subjects will appeal to researchers
and teachers in the field of history and social scientists who want
to include a historical component to their work. Because of its wide
chronological and geographical range and its rich array of historical
approaches the book provides ideal study material for both
undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers.
Contents:
1. Historical and contemporary perspectives on race, science and
medicine (W Ernst)
2. Western medicine and racial constitutions: Surgeon Atkin's
theory of slepy distemper in the 1730s (N Saakwa-Mante)
3. From the land of the Bible to the Caucasus and beyond: the
shifting ideas of the geographical origin of mankind (H F Augstein)
4. Colonial policies, racial politics and the development of
psychiatric institutions in early nineteenth-century British India (W
Ernst)
5. Racial categories and psychiatry in Africa: The asylum on
Robben Island in the nineteenth century (H Deacon)
6. 'An ancient race outworn': malaria and race in colonial India,
1860-1930 (D Arnold)
7. Tuberculosis and race in Britain and its Empire, 1900-1950 (M
Worboys)
8. Changing depictions of disease: race, representation and the
history of 'mongolism' (M Jackson)
9. Pro-alienism, anti-alienism and the medical profession in late-
Victorian and Edwardian Britain (B Harris)
10. 'A virulent strain': German bacteriology as scientific racism,
1890-1920 (P Weindling)
11. 'Savage Civilisation': Race, culture and mind in Britain, 1898-
1939 (M Thompson)
12. 'New men, strange faces, other minds': Arthur Keith, race and
the Piltdown affair, 1912-1953 (J Sawday)
Editors: Waltraud Ernst and Bernard Harris.
Published by Routledge, June 1999.
Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Hb: 0-415-18152-6: £55.00
Dr Waltraud Ernst
Department of History
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
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Tel: 01703-596648
Fax: 01703-593458
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