Health and difference: rendering human variation in colonial engagements
Éditeur :
Berghahn Books
ISBN :
9781785332715
Date de publication :
31 oct. 2016
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In this volume, contributors follow physicians, demographers, nutrition experts, physical anthropologists, colonial agents, military officials and missionaries in colonies all over the globe, with specific attention to how they tried to sort out pressing health problems of populations they perceived to be diverse.