Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the construction of racial categories.
| ISBN: | 9780415757478 |
| Publication date: | 10th March 2014 |
| Author: | Waltraud Ernst |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine |
| Genres: |
Public health and preventive medicine Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Migration, immigration and emigration Civics and citizenship History of ideas History of medicine Social and cultural history |