Doctors at Sea: Emigrant Voyages to Colonial Australia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403986856)

In this engaging tale of movement from one hemisphere to another, we see doctors at work attending to their often odious and demanding duties at sea, in quarantine, and after arrival. The book shows, in graphic detail, just why a few notorious voyages suffered tragic loss of life in the absence of competent supervision. Its emphasis, however, is on demonstrating the extent to which the professionalism of the majority of surgeon superintendents, even on ships where childhood epidemics raged, led to the extraordinary saving of life on the Australian route in the Victorian era.

Author: R. Haines
ISBN-10: 1403986851
ISBN-13: 9781403986856
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2005
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.02w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2006 pg. 62