Pratik Chakrabarti

Materials and medicine

Trade, conquest and therapeutics in the eighteenth century

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Produktbeschreibung

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780719083129
• ISBN-10: 0719083125
• Artikelnr.: 32095848

Autorenporträt

Pratik Chakrabarti is Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine at the University of Kent

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary Acknowledgment Introduction 1. Trade and treatment: Medicine in
the colonies in the age of commerce 2. War, settlement and medicine in the
West Indies 3. Terrains, territories and treatment in the Coromandel 4.
Materials and materia medica in India 5. Medical botany in Jamaican
plantations 6. Therapeutic trajectories in the age of empire 7. Colonialism
and the hinterlands of science Bibliography