Materials and Medicine - Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Pratik Chakrabarti is Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine at the University of Kent Klappentext Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. Zusammenfassung Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth! this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis GlossaryAcknowledgmentIntroduction1. Trade and treatment: Medicine in the colonies in the age of commerce 2. War, settlement and medicine in the West Indies3. Terrains, territories and treatment in the Coromandel4. Materials and materia medica in India5. Medical botany in Jamaican plantations6. Therapeutic trajectories in the age of empire7. Colonialism and the hinterlands of scienceBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Pratik Chakrabarti, Chakrabarti Pratik
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2014
• EAN: 9780719096549
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9654-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Imperialism (Paperb
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General