Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Ishita (Queen's University, Canada) Pande

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012

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This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in colonial India. Tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, the book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism.

ISBN-13
9780415627542
ISBN-10
0415627540
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year
2012
Publication date
2012-03-29
Pages
262
Dimensions
156x232x15
Weight
406