Bivins, Roberta E. (2013) Coming 'home' to (post)Colonial medicine : treating tropical bodies in Post-War Britain. Social History of Medicine, 26 (1). pp. 1-20. doi:10.1093/shm/hks058

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Journal or Publication Title:	Social History of Medicine
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0951-631X
Official Date:	February 2013
Dates:	Date Event February 2013 Published
Volume:	26
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 1-20
DOI:	10.1093/shm/hks058
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access

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