The Cultivation of Whiteness. Science Health and Racial Destiny In Australia

(HC w PON & Bookplate). A clean tight hardcover copy in jacket with PON on a single page and a bookplate to front pastedown or ffep. Previously read, showin glight shelf and edge wear, slight rubbing and lightly bumped corners

From Publisher:

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 denigration" of the white population in the new land, and medical and social scientists violated ethics and principles in pursuit of a more homogenized Australia. The Cultivation of Whiteness examines the notions of "whiteness" and racism, and introduces a whole new framework for discussion of the development of medicine and science. Warwick Anderson provides the first full account of the shocking experimentation in the 1920s and '30s on Aboriginal people of the central deserts -- the Australian equivalent of the infamous Tuskegee Experiment. Lucid and entertaining throughout, this pioneering historical survey of ideas will help to reshape debate on race, ethnicity, citizenship, and environment everywhere.

Product Info

ISBN: 0465003052

ISBN-13: 9780465003051

Publisher: Basic Books

Year: 2003

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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