About this title: The winner of the first Basic Prize in History of Science is a controversial study of the rise of medicine in Australia and its relation to racial thinking. 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780465003051ISBN:0465003052
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 400 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Red/grey boards. Previous price in pencil on front endpaper. Very light shelfwear to board edges. read more
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books, NY
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780465003051ISBN:0465003052
Description: New in New jacket. White, clean, crisp and bright 1st Edition, 1st Printing, small mark to outside lower page edge. A very SHARP copy! All of our books are hand selected and are as described. Mylar protective sleeves are available. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780465003051ISBN:0465003052
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. black rem mark bottom page edge, light dustjacket edgewear, text bright. 352 p.; 1.25" x 9.72" x 6.14". read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780465003051ISBN:0465003052
Description: As New in As New jacket. RACISM. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X + 390 PAGES. Includes introduction, abbreviations, notes, bibliography of works cited, & index. with b/w phots & maps. Little black spot on bottom of book. " THE COLONIZATION OF WHITENESS examines the notions of "whiteness" and racism, and introduces a whole new farmework for discussion of the history of medicine and science. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Carlton, Melbourne University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780522851694ISBN:052285169X
Description: New edition-hard cover in dust jacket. This book examines the notions of 'Whiteness' and racism, and introduces a whole new framework for discussion of the history of medicine and science. The author provides the first full account of the expermentation in the 1920s and 30s on Aboriginal people of the central deserts-experiments whose revelation compelled a major Australian university to publicly apologise. NEW EDITION. 243 x 160mm., pp. x, 390, b/w plates, notes, biblio., index. Contents-no ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books Inc., U. S
Date Published: 18/04/2003
ISBN-13:9780465003051ISBN:0465003052
Description: Near fine in Near fine jacket. Remainder mark. Near fine in publisher's quarter bound boards in like dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
Description: (New York), Basic Books, (2003). Reprint. Boards, remainder mark on edge else fine in d/w, maps, illust., pp. ix, 390 ISBN 0-465-00305-2. The first comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race and place, "...examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates...[and] also provides the first full account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts" (d/w blurb). First American edition. read more
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9.72 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00400 pages) illustrated lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardback) read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2003-05-01
ISBN-13:9780465003051ISBN:0465003052
Description: New. New clean unused FIRST EDITION text in DJ. Small remainder mark on bottom or top page edge but no other marks of any kind. ! read more
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