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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Weitere Verfasser: Widmer, Alexandra (HerausgeberIn), Lipphardt, Veronika (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Schriftenreihe:Studies of the Biosocial Society.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (250 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781785332722
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