6 Postponing Equality: From Colonial to International Nutritional Standards, 1932–1950

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. INTRODUCTION Health and Difference: Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements 1
6. 1 Race, Health and Colonial Politics in the Third Reich: Nauck and Giemsa’s Expedition to Espírito Santo, Brazil in 1936 21
7. 2 ‘Ill-suited’ Populations in German Nauru: Race, Health and Labour under Company Administration, 1888–1914 44
8. 3 The War on the Anopheles Mosquito: Malaria, Labour and Race in the New Hebrides, 1925–1945 68
9. 4 Medical Missions – Racial Visions: Fighting Sleeping Sickness in Colonial Africa in the Early Twentieth Century 91
10. 5 Colonial Histories of Cancers: Primary Liver Cancer in Africa, 1900s–1960s 111
11. 6 Postponing Equality: From Colonial to International Nutritional Standards, 1932–1950 129
12. 7 The Gender of Nutrition in French West Africa: Military Medicine, Intra-Colonial Marginality and Ethnos Theory in the Making of Malnutrition in Niger 149
13. 8 Medical Demography in Interwar Angola: Measuring and Negotiating Health, Reproduction and Difference 178
14. 9 Indo-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies: An Indo-European Analysis of a Paradoxical Colonial Category 205
15. AFTERWORD Following Racial Paper Trails 224
16. Index 233