Imperial hygiene : ǂa ǂcritical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health

This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized 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 public health as spatialized biopolitical governance between 1850 and 1950. Colonial management of race dovetailed with public health into new boundaries of rule, into racialized cordons sanitaires . 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. Colonial management of race dovetailed with public health into new boundaries of rule, into racialised cordons sanitaires "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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction: Lines of hygiene, boundaries of rule....Pages 1-13 Vaccination: Foreign Bodies, Contagion and Colonialism....Pages 14-38 Smallpox: The Spaces and Subjects of Public Health....Pages 39-58 Tuberculosis: Governing Healthy Citizens....Pages 59-80 Leprosy: Segregation and Imperial Hygiene....Pages 81-114 Quarantine: Imagining the Geo-body of a Nation....Pages 115-136 Foreign Bodies: Immigration, International Hygiene and White Australia....Pages 137-163 Sex: Public Health, Social Hygiene and Eugenics....Pages 164-185 Conclusion....Pages 186-189 Back Matter....Pages 190-264

This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized 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 public health as spatialized biopolitical governance between 1850 and 1950. Colonial management of race dovetailed with public health into new boundaries of rule, into racialised cordons sanitaires.

This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized 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 public health as spatialized biopolitical governance between 1850 and 1950. Colonial management of race dovetailed with public health into new boundaries of rule, into racialised cordons sanitaires . It is well recognised that epidemics of communicable disease have long been a ramification of contact between cultures and communities, accompaniments to exploration, migration and colonisation, one of the events of the 'frontier'.