Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health by Alison Bashford

Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health

Alison Bashford

264 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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