Title The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834 : slavery, disease and colonial modernity / Emily Senior

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; 119 Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 119. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; List of llustrations; Acknowledgements; Communicating Disease; Part I Health, Geography and Aesthetics; Chapter 1 'What New Forms of Death'; 'West-India Georgic'; Georgic Organicism; Empire of Experiment; Imitation and Innovation; Chapter 2 The Diagnostics of Description; The Diagnostics of Description; Colonial Picturesque; Medical Topographical Aesthetics; 'A Change of Air and Place'; Colonial Gothic; Medical Vision; Part II Colonial Bodies Chapter 3 Skin, Textuality and Colonial FeelingClimate and Complexion: The Porosity of Skin; Inside/Out: The Body without Skin; Narratives of Body and Text; Sentimental Textuality; Chapter 4 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World'; Creole Pathologies; 'Not One of the World's Family'; Creole Modernities; Creoles and Atlantic Medical and Natural Knowledge; Part III Revolution and Abolition; Chapter 5 The 'Intimate Union of Medicine and Magic'; Obeah in the Archive; Obeah and Medicine in the British Caribbean; The Contagious Imagination Three-Fingered Jack and the Performance of ProphecyColonial Gothic and Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827); Mimesis and Modernity; Afterword: Colonial Modernities and after Abolition; Notes; Communicating Disease; 1 'What New Forms of Death'; 2 The Diagnostics of Description; 3 Skin, Textuality and Colonial Feeling; 4 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World'; 5 The 'Intimate Union of Medicine and Magic'; Afterword; Bibliography; Index Summary During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Medicine -- Caribbean Area -- 19th century -- History Medicine -- Caribbean Area -- 20th century -- History Communicable diseases -- Caribbean Area -- 19th century -- History Communicable diseases -- Caribbean Area -- 20th century -- History Medical literature -- History Public Health -- history Caribbean Region MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine. MEDICAL -- Public Health. Communicable diseases Medical literature Medicine Caribbean Area Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108271554 1108271553 9781108241977 1108241972 1108266096 9781108266093

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