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 . Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 12 List of Abbreviations......Page 15 Introduction: Lines of hygiene, boundaries of rule......Page 16 1 Vaccination: Foreign bodies, contagion and colonialism......Page 29 Foreign bodies: boundaries and the logic of vaccination......Page 31 Connections: empire and the genealogies of vaccine......Page 38 Vaccination and administration: certificates, scars and passports......Page 48 Conclusion......Page 53 2 Smallpox: The spaces and subjects of public health......Page 54 Smallpox in Sydney, 1881......Page 55 Lines of hygiene: bodies in quarantined space......Page 60 The carceral spaces of public health: government, consent and the liberal subject......Page 66 Conclusion......Page 72 3 Tuberculosis: Governing healthy citizens......Page 74 Tuberculosis prevention and treatment: toward 'public' health......Page 78 Isolation and the dangerous consumptive......Page 81 The sanatorium: the cultivation of healthy selves......Page 85 Hygienic citizenship......Page 92 Conclusion......Page 94 4 Leprosy: Segregation and imperial hygiene......Page 96 'An Imperial Danger': contagion and segregation......Page 98 Exile-enclosure: island isolation in Australia......Page 108 Racial cordons sanitaires......Page 118 Interior frontiers: sexuality, contact and race......Page 122 Conclusion......Page 128 5 Quarantine: Imagining the geo-body of a nation......Page 130 Quarantine and nationalism......Page 132 The island-nation: marine hygiene and the national border......Page 138 Imagining Australia in space and time......Page 144 Conclusion......Page 150 6 Foreign bodies: Immigration, international hygiene and white Australia......Page 152 International hygiene......Page 156 Racial imaginings and white Australia......Page 162 Imperial migration and racial hygiene......Page 166 Tropical medicine and foreign white bodies: 'Is White Australia Possible?'......Page 172 Conclusion......Page 177 7 Sex: Public health, social hygiene and eugenics......Page 179 Venereal disease: detention and education......Page 181 Reproduction and responsibility......Page 187 The eugenic cordon sanitaire: contagion and the future population......Page 195 Conclusion......Page 199 Conclusion......Page 201 Notes......Page 205 Select Bibliography......Page 247 A......Page 261 B......Page 262 C......Page 263 D......Page 265 E......Page 266 G......Page 267 I......Page 268 L......Page 270 M......Page 271 N......Page 272 P......Page 273 Q......Page 274 S......Page 275 T......Page 277 W......Page 278 Y......Page 279 Cover 1 Contents 8 List of Figures 10 Acknowledgements 12 List of Abbreviations 15 Introduction: Lines of hygiene, boundaries of rule 16 1 Vaccination: Foreign bodies, contagion and colonialism 29 Foreign bodies: boundaries and the logic of vaccination 31 Connections: empire and the genealogies of vaccine 38 Vaccination and administration: certificates, scars and passports 48 Conclusion 53 2 Smallpox: The spaces and subjects of public health 54 Smallpox in Sydney, 1881 55 Lines of hygiene: bodies in quarantined space 60 The carceral spaces of public health: government, consent and the liberal subject 66 Conclusion 72 3 Tuberculosis: Governing healthy citizens 74 Tuberculosis prevention and treatment: toward 'public' health 78 Isolation and the dangerous consumptive 81 The sanatorium: the cultivation of healthy selves 85 Hygienic citizenship 92 Conclusion 94 4 Leprosy: Segregation and imperial hygiene 96 'An Imperial Danger': contagion and segregation 98 Exile-enclosure: island isolation in Australia 108 Racial cordons sanitaires 118 Interior frontiers: sexuality, contact and race 122 Conclusion 128 5 Quarantine: Imagining the geo-body of a nation 130 Quarantine and nationalism 132 The island-nation: marine hygiene and the national border 138 Imagining Australia in space and time 144 Conclusion 150 6 Foreign bodies: Immigration, international hygiene and white Australia 152 International hygiene 156 Racial imaginings and white Australia 162 Imperial migration and racial hygiene 166 Tropical medicine and foreign white bodies: 'Is White Australia Possible?' 172 Conclusion 177 7 Sex: Public health, social hygiene and eugenics 179 Venereal disease: detention and education 181 Reproduction and responsibility 187 The eugenic cordon sanitaire: contagion and the future population 195 Conclusion 199 Conclusion 201 Notes 205 Select Bibliography 247 Index 261 A 261 B 262 C 263 D 265 E 266 F 267 G 267 H 268 I 268 J 270 K 270 L 270 M 271 N 272 O 273 P 273 Q 274 R 275 S 275 T 277 U 278 V 278 W 278 Y 279 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.

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'.