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Today, our excremental captivation defines what it means to be a modern person. Pressing concerns about fecal matters challenge our sense of ourselves, making us question whether we can ever be truly uncontaminated. Strained efforts to disavow our shit have forced out the sciences of wastewater epidemiology and the molecular refinements of the human gut microbiome. Attempts to repudiate our shit additionally have produced psychoanalysis, philo...

Today, our excremental captivation defines what it means to be a modern person. Pressing concerns about fecal matters challenge our sense of ourselves, making us question whether we can ever be truly uncontaminated. Strained efforts to disavow our shit have forced out the sciences of wastewater epidemiology and the molecular refinements of the human gut microbiome. Attempts to repudiate our shit additionally have produced psychoanalysis, philo...

Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre's Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speak...

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This astonishing story links first-contact encounters in New Guinea with laboratory experiments in Bethesda, Maryland, sorcery with science, cannibalism with compassion, and slow viruses with infectious proteins, reshaping our understanding of what it means to do science.

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Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre's Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speak...

How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that tell us about the distinctiveness or otherwise of this "sea of islands"? Foregrounding the work of leading and emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past...

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Explores the globalization of the unconscious as a mediating discourse of modern civilization, its discontents, and its others

Warwick Anderson is a research professor in the Department of History and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney, and a professorial fellow in the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines and The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia, both...

Connecting laboratory research, clinical medicine, social theory, and lived experience, Intolerant Bodies reveals how doctors and patients have come to terms, often reluctantly, with this novel and puzzling mechanism of disease causation.

A study of the promotion of hygiene and bodily reform in the colonial Philippines.

An analysis of the role medicine and public health played in determining race and nationality in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia.

A study of the promotion of hygiene and bodily reform in the colonial Philippines.

This astonishing story links first-contact encounters in New Guinea with laboratory experiments in Bethesda, Maryland, sorcery with science, cannibalism with compassion, and slow viruses with infectious proteins, reshaping our understanding of what it means to do science.

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.