Disease, Medicine, and Empire
Title | Disease, Medicine, and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Roy M. MacLeod |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 9780415006859 |
Difference and Disease
Title | Difference and Disease PDF eBook |
Author | Suman Seth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2018-06-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108418309 |
Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Medicine and Empire
Title | Medicine and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Pratik Chakrabarti |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2013-12-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137374802 |
The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history – spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America. Exploring the major developments in European medicine from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Pratik Chakrabarti shows that the major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European activities overseas: - The increasing influence of natural history on medicine - The growth of European drug markets - The rise of surgeons in status - Ideas of race and racism - Advancements in sanitation and public health - The expansion of the modern quarantine system - The emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns Drawing on recent scholarship and primary texts, this book narrates a mutually constitutive history in which medicine was both a 'tool' and a product of imperialism, and provides an original, accessible insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today.
Disease and Empire
Title | Disease and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Philip D. Curtin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1998-05-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521598354 |
This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa.
Imperial Medicine
Title | Imperial Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas M. Haynes |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 081220221X |
In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British medicine. In 1899, at the twilight of his career and as the British Empire approached its zenith, he founded the London School of Tropical Medicine. For these contributions Manson would later be called the "father of British tropical medicine." In Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease Douglas M. Haynes uses Manson's career to explore the role of British imperialism in the making of Victorian medicine and science. He challenges the categories of "home" and "empire" that have long informed accounts of British medicine and science, revealing a vastly more dynamic, dialectical relationship between the imperial metropole and periphery than has previously been recognized. Manson's decision to launch his career in China was no accident; the empire provided a critical source of career opportunities for a chronically overcrowded profession in Britain. And Manson used the London media's interest in the empire to advance his scientific agenda, including the discovery of the transmission of malaria in 1898, which he portrayed as British science. The empire not only created a demand for practitioners but also enhanced the presence of British medicine throughout the world. Haynes documents how the empire subsidized research science at the London School of Tropical Medicine and elsewhere in Britain in the early twentieth century. By illuminating the historical enmeshment of Victorian medicine and science in Britain's imperial project, Imperial Medicine identifies the present-day privileged distribution of specialist knowledge about disease with the lingering consequences of European imperialism.
Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire
Title | Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Jackson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN |
Arzt - Medizin - Krankheit - Geburt - Tod.
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.