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.
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.
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
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
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