| The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia Contributor(s): Anderson, Warwick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465003052 ISBN-13: 9780465003051 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: In this controversial study, 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - History | Australia & New Zealand - General - Medical | History |
| Dewey: 362.109 |
| LCCN: 2002153904 |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.14" W x 9.72" (1.57 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |