Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830

Medicine in an age of Commerce and Empire explores the impact of commercial and imperial expansion on British medicine from the late seventeenth century tothe early nineteenth century. INDICE: Introduction; Medicine as natural history; 1: Climate, fevers, and medicine before 1700; 2: Sydenham and Boerhaave in the tropics; 3: The medicine of warm climates; 4: Pathology, physiology, and race; Tropical therapeutics; 1: Inflamed bodies; 2: Exotics and antiseptics; 3: Empire of experiment; 4: A therapeutic revolution; Ills of empire; 1: Invalids and entrepreneurs; 2:The voyager returns; 3: Albion's coast is sick; 4: The prospect of invasion; Conclusion; Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-957773-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 16/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés