Health, medicine, and the sea : Australian voyages, c.1815-1860 / Katherine Foxhall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foxhall, Katherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penal transportation--Australia--History--19th century.

Penal transportation.

Prisoners--Transportation--Medical care--History--19th century.

Prisoners.

Convict ships--Health aspects.

Convict ships.

Prisoners--Health and hygiene.

Prisoners--Australia--History--19th century.

History.

Prisoners--Transportation.

Medical care.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2012.

Summary:

During the 19th century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and the sea follows these people on a fascinating journey around half the globe to give a rich account of the creation of lay and professional medical knowledge in an ever-changing maritime environment.

Contents:

1. Problems of departure

2. Steaming ships

Voyage I: Eliza Baldwinson (1832)

3. Geographies of the tropical Atlantic

4. "Such concentrated mischief": scurvy and imprisonment

5. Trust and authority below the hatches

Voyage II: Henry Wellings (1858)

6. From emigrants to immigrants: quarantine and the colony.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719085710

0719085713

OCLC:

811117786