Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements

Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists' and administrators' interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulat...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2016]
Series:Studies of the Biosocial Society 8
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
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Summary:Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists' and administrators' interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating documents, in reshaping landscapes and environments, and in fixing distances between humans, the book advances new understandings of the materiality of colonial institutional life and governance
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (250 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785332722
DOI:10.1515/9781785332722

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