Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960 (Hardcover)

Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the construction of racial categories.

Related link: The Society for the Social History of Medicine
eBook available with sample pages: 0203025423