| Description |
xiv, 264 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Crime files series |
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Crime files series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Lines of hygiene, boundaries of rule -- 1. Vaccination: Foreign bodies, contagion and colonialism -- 2. Smallpox: The spaces and subjects of public health -- 3. Tuberculosis: Governing healthy citizens -- 4. Leprosy: Segregation and imperial hygiene -- 5. Quarantine: Imagining the geo-body of a nation -- 6. Foreign bodies: Immigration, international hygiene and white Australia -- 7. Sex: Public health, social hygiene and eugenics |
| Summary |
"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 Australia as case-studies, the book examines the enclosures, boundaries and borders which were the objects and means of public health, as well as of colonial, national and racial administration between 1850 and 1950. If public health was in part about segregation (of the diseased from the clean, the fit from the unfit, the immune from the vulnerable), so was race a segregative practice in the modern period."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-245) and index |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- Health aspects -- History.
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Imperialism -- Health aspects -- Australia -- History.
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Medical policy -- Australia -- History.
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Public health -- Political aspects -- Australia -- History.
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Communicable diseases -- Australia -- Prevention -- History.
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Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
2003048280 |
| ISBN |
140390488X hardback |
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