Coming 'Home' to (post)Colonial Medicine

Treating Tropical Bodies in Post-War Britain

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12208762
AutoresR Bivins (0000-0002-8714-7819, University of Warwick, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume26
Fascículo1
Páginas1-20
Data de publicação2012-07-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial History of Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0951-631X • E-ISSN: 1477-4666
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/shm/hks058
OpenAlexW2097449198
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas11

While investment and popular enthusiasm have fuelled significant growth in the history of medicine since the 1980s, it remains by some metrics well outside of the historical mainstream. Yet developments in the history of medicine could offer traction to historians more generally. Through its close critical attention to power, embodiment and hegemonic institutions and knowledges, the history of medicine also presents a unique perspective from which to interrogate ‘postcolonialism’. Here, post-war British examples demonstrate the potential of a medical and postcolonial lens for historians exploring policy making, immigration or identity. In this period, civil servants, biomedical researchers, policy makers, and publics including migrants actively shaped medical and governmental responses to an apparently novel phenomenon: the mass migration to Britain of its former tropical subjects. Postcolonial analysis uncovers new models of community, and highlights the importance of the late twentieth-century and the post-imperial city as sites of historiographic and theoretical development

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