What can the study of the history of medicine tell us about the nature of power and the politics of race in the British Empire? How did medical theories of disease and healing shape ideas about colonial environments, populations, bodies, and racial differences in the imaginations of British colonizers? How did medicine and science function as tools of colonial domination and as part of broader “civilizing” projects, and what were the limits of such efforts at social control? Can the study of medical reforms and everyday life shed light on how colonial subjects conceptualized, challenged, and defined their own positions within the colonial social order?
- Teacher: Alison Fletcher
JC_SEMESTER: 23 FA