Science as White Epistemology

Pratik Chakrabarti is chair in the history of science and medicine and director of the Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century and Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics.

• Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Decolonization NowThe Problem of Nature1. The White Epistemology of Nature2. Colonialism and the Reconfiguration of NatureWhite Deep History3. The Whiteness of Deep History4. The Wealth of the Land5. Geology and Settler ColonialismHumans and Nonhumans6. Humans, Nonhumans, and Other Humans7. Primates and the Deep History of Race 8. Genomics and the Reinvention of Indigeneity 9. Hormones and the Molecularization of GenderRepatriation as Decolonization10. Repatriating the Dead 11. The Naked Pharaohs 12. From Graveyards to Genomics The Coda: The Ideology of NatureBibliographyIndex