Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire

By Ishita Pande

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415778158
• ISBN13: 9780415778152
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"