Imperial Bodies in London - Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914

How the Circulation of Tropical Bodies Changed Victorian Understandings of Race, Gender, Disease, and Climate

About the author

Kristin D. Hussey is a historian of medicine and museum curator. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Copenhagen's Medical Museion and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR). In 2018, she was the inaugural recipient of the McCarthy Award for the History of Medicine.

Summary

A postcolonial history of medicine in London. Winner of the UK Royal Historical Society's 2022 Whitfield Prize for best first monograph in the field of British and Irish History.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Hussey, Kristin D Hussey
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780822946861
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4686-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 231 mm x 157 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteent; Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century; Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Illnesses, therapies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)