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Imperial Hygiene

A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health

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  • © 2004

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  1. Alison Bashford

    1. Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Lines of hygiene, boundaries of rule

    • Alison Bashford
    Pages 1-13

  3. Vaccination: Foreign Bodies, Contagion and Colonialism

    • Alison Bashford
    Pages 14-38

  4. Smallpox: The Spaces and Subjects of Public Health

    • Alison Bashford
    Pages 39-58

  5. Tuberculosis: Governing Healthy Citizens

    • Alison Bashford
    Pages 59-80

  6. Leprosy: Segregation and Imperial Hygiene

    • Alison Bashford
    Pages 81-114

  7. Quarantine: Imagining the Geo-body of a Nation

    • Alison Bashford
    Pages 115-136

  8. Foreign Bodies: Immigration, International Hygiene and White Australia

    • Alison Bashford
    Pages 137-163

  9. Sex: Public Health, Social Hygiene and Eugenics

    • Alison Bashford
    Pages 164-185

  10. Conclusion

    • Alison Bashford
    Pages 186-189

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 190-264
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About this book

This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized interwar immigrant, from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony, from sexual hygiene to national hygiene to imperial hygiene. Taking British colonialism and White Australia as case studies, the book examines public health as spatialized biopolitical governance between 1850 and 1950. Colonial management of race dovetailed with public health into new boundaries of rule, into racialised cordons sanitaires .

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This book weaves the history of public health, nationalism and race in Australia and the British Empire into a master narrative of imperial projects on hygiene, segregation and borders. Imperial Hygiene broke new ground in the global history of medicine and in the years to come will remain a vital text for scholars working on colonial and global health.'

Dr Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Kent, UK

"Bashford delivers a very innovative study on colonial medicine in the global context of nationalism." - Eva Marie Stolberg, H-Net

"Bashford's book provides a very interesting overarching historical narrative of how spatial management of health and race were central to the process of nation-building in Australia." - Amna Khalid, BJHS

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia

    Alison Bashford

About the author

Alison Bashford is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has taught Pacific and Australian history at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Harvard University, USA.

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