Difference and Disease - Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Locality: 1: 'The same diseases here as in Europe'? Health and locality before 1700; 2. Changes in the air: William Hillary and English medicine in the West Indies, 1720-1760; Part II. Empire: 3. Seasoning sickness and the imaginative geography of the British Empire; 4. Imperial medicine and the putrefactive paradigm, 1720-1800; Part III. Race: 5. Race-medicine in the colonies, 1679-1750; 6. Race, slavery, and polygenism: Edward Long and the history of Jamaica; 7. Pathologies of blackness: race-medicine, slavery, and abolitionism; Conclusion.

About the author

Suman Seth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, New York. His previous publications include Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890–1926 (2010). He is currently serving on the governing council of the History of Science Society.

Summary

Suman Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual construction of medicine, race, and empire in the eighteenth century. Readers will find medical writers engaging with abolitionism and the care of the enslaved, and will be able to track the ways that medicine created modern notions of racial difference.

Product details

• Authors: Suman Seth, Suman (Cornell University Seth, Seth Suman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108407007
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40700-7
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Global Health Histories
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; History of Ideas, British Empire, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Tropics, Slavery & abolition of slavery, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery