Medicine in the Colonies
Title | Medicine in the Colonies PDF eBook |
Author | William Scott Wadsworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Medicine in Colonial America
Title | Medicine in Colonial America PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Reiss |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In Medicine in Colonial America, Oscar Reiss recognizes the theories and practices exercised by colonial physicians, and illustrates the gradual evolution of Dark Age medical ignorance to the beginnings of modern-day enlightenment. Reiss identifies the various levels of training for physicians from extensive schooling at respected universities to the informal instruction of mountebanks and quacks. He illustrates the numerous, unorthodox methods including bleeding, vomiting, purging, and cupping, used by both charlatans and educated practitioners alike to treat disease, and weighs the quality of colonial life against the available medical knowledge of the day. Reiss discusses the early attempts to license physicians, competitive pricing of medical service, colonial surgery and early autopsies, and cites important medical breakthroughs and theories. An interesting and informative read, Medicine in Colonial America will be of great value to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and dentists as well as historians.
Medicine and Colonial Identity
Title | Medicine and Colonial Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Bridie Andrews |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1134441185 |
This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accomodating multiple perspectives on identity within a single narrative.
Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850
Title | Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850 PDF eBook |
Author | M. Jenner |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2007-09-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0230591469 |
What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. Chapters explore the most important themes in the social history of medicine and offer a fresh understanding of healthcare in this time of social and economic transformation.
Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru
Title | Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Warren (Ph.D.) |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822961113 |
An original study focusing on the primacy placed on physicians and medical care to generate population growth and increase the workforce during the late eigteenth century in colonial Peru.
Medicine in an age of Commerce and Empire
Title | Medicine in an age of Commerce and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Harrison |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2010-09-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199577730 |
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.
Contagion and Enclaves
Title | Contagion and Enclaves PDF eBook |
Author | Nandini Bhattacharya |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1846318297 |
Contagion and Enclaves examines the social history of medicine across two intersecting British enclaves in the major tea-producing region of colonial India: the hill station of Darjeeling and the adjacent tea plantations of North Bengal. Focusing on the establishment of hill sanatoria and other health care facilities and practices against the backdrop of the expansion of tea cultivation and labor migration, it tracks the demographic and environmental transformation of the region and the critical role race and medicine played in it, showing that the British enclaves were essential and distinctive sites of the articulation of colonial power and economy.