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Difference and Disease

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Produktdetails

Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Seitenzahl: 342
Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
Englisch
Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
Gewicht: 496g
ISBN-13: 9781108407007
ISBN-10: 1108407005
Artikelnr.: 59586177

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Autorenporträt

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.

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