Health and Difference

Alexandra Widmer is an anthropologist who teaches at York University in Toronto. Situating the Pacific islands in a global context, her work focuses on colonial and post colonial dimensions of biomedicine, population thinking, reproduction and care.

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Acknowledgments



Introduction: Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements

Veronika Lipphardt and Alexandra Widmer



Chapter 1. Race, Health and Colonial Politics in the Third Reich: Nauck and Giemsa’s Expedition to Espírito Santo, Brazil in 1936

André Felipe Cândido da Silva



Chapter 2. ‘Ill-suited’ Populations in German Nauru: Race, Health and Labour under Company Administration, 1888–1914

Antje Kühnast



Chapter 3. The War on the Anopheles Mosquito: Malaria, Labour and Race in the New Hebrides, 1925–1945

Jean Mitchell



Chapter 4. Medical Missions – Racial Visions: Fighting Sleeping Sickness in Colonial Africa in the Early Twentieth Century

Sarah Ehlers



Chapter 5. Colonial Histories of Cancers: Primary Liver Cancer in Africa, 1900s–1960s

Jean-Paul Bado



Chapter 6. Postponing Equality: From Colonial to International Nutritional Standards, 1932–1950

Maria Letícia Galluzzi Bizzo



Chapter 7. The Gender of Nutrition in French West Africa: Military Medicine, Intra-Colonial Marginality and Ethnos Theory in the Making of Malnutrition in Niger

Barbara M. Cooper



Chapter 8. Medical Demography in Interwar Angola: Measuring and Negotiating Health, Reproduction and Difference

Samuël Coghe



Chapter 9. Indo-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies: An Indo-European Analysis of a Paradoxical Colonial Category

Hans Pols



Afterword: Following Racial Paper Trails

Warwick Anderson



Index