Medicine in an age of Commerce and Empire
Britain and its Tropical Colonies 1660-1830
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19980122 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Harrison (0000-0001-7108-1256, corresponding author), Mark Harrison (0000-0002-7020-9761) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 353 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Medicine in an age of commerce and empire (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577736.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W567274747 |
| Open Library | OL25321535M |
| ISBN | 9780199577736 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
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
Ancient history · Archaeology · Biology · Botany · Empire · Ethnology · Geography · Natural history · Natural medicine · Traditional medicine · Tropics · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Medicine · 17th century · 18th century · Colonialism · Colonies · Delivery of Health Care · Great britain · Großbritannien · India · Medical care · Medical economics · Medizin · Ecology
British Worlds, Settler Worlds, World Systems, and Killing Fields
Recipe Collections and the Realities of Fashionable Diseases in Eighteenth-Century Elite Domestic Medicine
Caribbean Slavery, British Anti-Slavery, and the Cultural Politics of Venereal Disease
The Early Modern Medical-Military Complex
Between the Bazaar and the Bench
A Global Perspective
The “Cholera Cloud” in the Nineteenth-Century “British World”
Difference and Disease
Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
Native and Foreign in Tokugawa Medicine
Unpalatable Truths
Assembling the Tropics
‘Constitutions selection’
What is “colonial” about medieval colonial medicine? Iberian health in global context
The constitution of empire
Toxic remedies
The Tranquebarian Society
Efficient, Efficacious and Humane Responses to Non-European Bodies in British Military Medicine, 1780–1815
The Little Nothings of Our Life’
The Effects of Disease on the London Missionary Society’s South Seas Missions between 1797 and 1860
Military Medicine and the Making of Race
Shaping Modern Shanghai
Scorbutic nostalgia
Scurvy on sea and land
Not Just a Commercial Voyage
The genesis of hospital medicine in India
Tropical Hospitality, British Masculinity, and Drink in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Longing for the Beheaded Father
Enslavers’ Big Lie
You are what you eat'
A Dreadful Scourge
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |