Warwick Anderson Knihy

A groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s.

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.

The book explores how medicine and public health influenced the concepts of race and nationality in Australia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the intersection of medical practices, public health policies, and societal attitudes, revealing how these factors shaped national identity and racial classifications. Through historical analysis, it highlights the complexities of health, race, and governance in shaping the Australian landscape.

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.

This book unpicks the strategy, policy and culture that has supported the social mobility success story of one of the UK's leading schools, the London Academy of Excellence. It distils this into universal concepts and ideas that school leaders, in any context, can consider for their own schools.