Mark Harrison

Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire

Britain and Its Tropical Colonies 1660-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

Medicine in an age of Commerce and Empire explores the impact of commercial and imperial expansion on British medicine from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1098g
• ISBN-13: 9780199577736
• ISBN-10: 0199577730
• Artikelnr.: 31969630

Autorenporträt

Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Medicine as natural history
1: Climate, fevers, and medicine before 1700
2: Sydenham and Boerhaave in the tropics
3: The medicine of warm climates
4: Pathology, physiology, and race
Tropical therapeutics
1: Inflamed bodies
2: Exotics and antiseptics
3: Empire of experiment
4: A therapeutic revolution
Ills of empire
1: Invalids and entrepreneurs
2: The voyager returns
3: Albion's coast is sick
4: The prospect of invasion
Conclusion
Bibliography