| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
1. Medicine in the Age of Commerce, 1600 -- 1800 -- 2. Plants, medicine and empire -- 3. Medicine and the colonial armed forces -- 4. Colonialism, climate and race -- 5. Imperialism and the globalization of disease -- 6. Western medicine in colonial India -- 7. Medicine and the colonization of Africa -- 8. Imperialism and tropical medicine -- 9. Bacteriology and the civilizing mission -- 10. Colonialism and traditional medicines |
| Summary |
This title is a comprehensive overview of the history of medicine and European imperialism from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Drawing on recent scholarship, the text comparatively examines the key developments that took place within colonialism and medicine and explores the main historiographical issues surrounding the topics. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-232) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
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Medicine -- France -- Colonies -- History
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Medicine -- Spain -- Colonies -- History
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Imperialism -- Health aspects
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Imperialism and science.
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Medicine -- History.
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Colonialism -- history
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History of Medicine
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History, Modern 1601-
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Global Health -- history
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history of medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Atlases.
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MEDICAL -- Essays.
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
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Imperialism and science
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Imperialism -- Health aspects
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Imperialismus
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Medizin
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Imperialisme.
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France |
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United Kingdom |
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Spain |
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France
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Great Britain
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Spain
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Frankreich
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Großbritannien
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Spanien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1137374802 |
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9781137374806 |
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