Suman Seth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, New York. His previous publications include Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926 (2010). He is currently serving on the governing council of the History of Science Society.
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Introduction Part I. Locality: 1: 'The same diseases here as in Europe'? Health and locality before 1700 2. Changes in the air: William Hillary and English medicine in the West Indies, 1720-1760 Part II. Empire: 3. Seasoning sickness and the imaginative geography of the British Empire 4. Imperial medicine and the putrefactive paradigm, 1720-1800 Part III. Race: 5. Race-medicine in the colonies, 1679-1750 6. Race, slavery, and polygenism: Edward Long and the history of Jamaica 7. Pathologies of blackness: race-medicine, slavery, and abolitionism Conclusion.
Introduction Part I. Locality: 1: 'The same diseases here as in Europe'? Health and locality before 1700 2. Changes in the air: William Hillary and English medicine in the West Indies, 1720-1760 Part II. Empire: 3. Seasoning sickness and the imaginative geography of the British Empire 4. Imperial medicine and the putrefactive paradigm, 1720-1800 Part III. Race: 5. Race-medicine in the colonies, 1679-1750 6. Race, slavery, and polygenism: Edward Long and the history of Jamaica 7. Pathologies of blackness: race-medicine, slavery, and abolitionism Conclusion.
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