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Medicine and Empire: 1600-1960 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780230276369)
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xThe history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history - spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America.
Exploring the major developments in European medicine from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Pratik Chakrabarti shows that the major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European activities overseas:
- The increasing influence of natural history on medicine
- The growth of European drug markets
- The rise of surgeons in status
- Ideas of race and racism
- Advancements in sanitation and public health
- The expansion of the modern quarantine system
- The emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns
Drawing on recent scholarship and primary texts, this book narrates a mutually constitutive history in which medicine was both a 'tool' and a product of imperialism, and provides an original, accessible insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today
Author: Pratik Chakrabarti
ISBN-10: 0230276369
ISBN-13: 9780230276369
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2013
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
Exploring the major developments in European medicine from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Pratik Chakrabarti shows that the major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European activities overseas:
- The increasing influence of natural history on medicine
- The growth of European drug markets
- The rise of surgeons in status
- Ideas of race and racism
- Advancements in sanitation and public health
- The expansion of the modern quarantine system
- The emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns
Drawing on recent scholarship and primary texts, this book narrates a mutually constitutive history in which medicine was both a 'tool' and a product of imperialism, and provides an original, accessible insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today
Author: Pratik Chakrabarti
ISBN-10: 0230276369
ISBN-13: 9780230276369
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2013
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
By Pratik Chakrabarti
xPratik Chakrabarti is Reader in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices (2004), Material and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century (2010) and Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (2012). He is also one of the editors of the journal Social History of Medicine.
Pratik Chakrabarti is Reader in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices (2004), Material and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century (2010) and Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (2012). He is also one of the editors of the journal Social History of Medicine.
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