Health, Medicine, and the Sea - Australian Voyages, C.1815-60

Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history.

List of contents

Introduction
1: Problems of departure
2: Steaming ships
Voyage I: Eliza Baldwinson
3: Geographies of the tropical Atlantic
4: Such concealed mischief: scurvy and imprisonment
5: Trust and authority below the hatches
Voyage II: Henry Wellings
6: From emigrants to immigrants: quarantine and the colony
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Katherine Foxhall is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in History at King's College London

Summary

Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Foxhall
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2016
• EAN: 9781784993610
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-361-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration