Health and empire

Health Problems of the Empire; Past, Present and Future

Commodity culture: tropical health and hygiene in the British Empire.

Before heading to a 'tropical' region of the Empire, British men and women spent considerable time and effort gathering outfit believed essential for their impending trip. Ordinary items such as soap, clothing, foodstuffs and bedding became transformed into potentially life-saving items that required the fastidious attention of any would-be traveller. Everyone from scientists and physicians to ...

Health, medicine and empire: perspectives on colonial India

without an ascertainable and localizable lesion. The historically familiar image of young Sigmund Freud's mentor, Theodor Meynert, contemptuously dismissing such cases as "mere hysteria" at the Vienna Medical School captures this belief. Yet, from his research, Hodgkiss finds that in point of fact a rich, varied, and clinically astute body of observation and theorization about this phenomenon r...

Racism, Empire and Sociology

‘[T]he entity called Europe was constructed from the outside in as much as from the inside out.’ So wrote Mary Louise Pratt, at the start of Imperial Eyes (1992: 6), her insightful account of colonial travelogue. Pratt’s point provides a pithy summary of one of the central claims of what was, at the time, the still emerging field of postcolonial studies (in which context, of course, Imperial Ey...

Verbatims and "Empire Matters".