The Cultivation of Whiteness. Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia

Anderson, Warwick

ISBN 10: 0465003052 / ISBN 13: 9780465003051

Published by Basic Books, New York, 2003

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x + 390 pp. dust jacket Rubber-stamped on front free endpaper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cultivation of Whiteness. Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia
• Publisher: Basic Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465003052
• ISBN 13: 9780465003051
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine

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Synopsis

In nineteenth-century Australia, the main commentators on race and biological differences were doctors. But the medical profession entertained serious anxieties about the possibility of "racial denigration" of the white population in the new land, and medical and social scientists violated ethics and principles in pursuit of a more homogenized Australia. The Cultivation of Whiteness examines the notions of "whiteness" and racism, and introduces a whole new framework for discussion of the development of medicine and science. Warwick Anderson provides the first full account of the shocking experimentation in the 1920s and '30s on Aboriginal people of the central deserts -- the Australian equivalent of the infamous Tuskegee Experiment. Lucid and entertaining throughout, this pioneering historical survey of ideas will help to reshape debate on race, ethnicity, citizenship, and environment everywhere.

About the Author

Warwick Anderson is Director of the History of Health Sciences Program and Vice Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Australia, he now lives in San Francisco.