Health and Difference; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Health and Difference; Chapter 1 -- Race, Health and Colonial Politics in the Third Reich; Chapter 2 -- 'Ill-suited' Populations in German Nauru; Chapter 3 -- The War on the Anopheles Mosquito; Chapter 4 -- Medical Missions -- Racial Visions; Chapter 5 -- Colonial Histories of Cancers; Chapter 6 -- Postponing Equality; Chapter 7 -- The Gender of Nutrition in French West Africa; Chapter 8 -- Medical Demography in Interwar Angola; Chapter 9 -- Indo-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies
Afterword -- Following Racial Paper TrailsIndex
Summary
Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists' and administrators' interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating documents, in reshaping landscapes and environments, and in fixing distances between humans, the book advances new understandings of the materiality of colonial institutional life and governance
