British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830 / edited by Geoffrey L. Hudson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hudson, Geoffrey L. (Geoffrey Lewis)

Series:

Clio medica (New York, N.Y.) ; 81.

Wellcome series in the history of medicine.

Clio medica (New York, N.Y.) ; 81

Wellcome series in the history of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Naval--History--16th century.

Medicine, Naval.

Medicine, Naval--History--17th century.

Medicine, Military--History--16th century.

Medicine, Military.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on medicine and society, and were in turn influenced by them. The essays within examine these phenomena, exploring the imperial context, nursing and medicine in Britain, naval medicine, as well as the relationship between medicine, the state and society. British Military and Naval Medicine challenges the notion that military medicine was, in all respects, ‘a good thing’. The so-called monopoly of military medicine and the authoritarian structures within the military were complex and, at times, successfully contested. Sometimes changes were imposed that cannot be characterised as improvements. British Military and Naval Medicine also points to opportunities for further research in this exciting field of study.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830

List of Illustrations / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830

List of Tables / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830

Preface / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830

Introduction: British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600–1830 / Geoffrey L. Hudson

Warfare and the Creation of British Imperial Medicine, 1600–1800 / J.D. Alsop

The British Army in North America and the West Indies, 1755–83: A Medical Perspective / Paul E. Kopperman

Disease and Medicine in the Armies of British India, 1750–1830: The Treatment of Fevers and the Emergence of Tropical Therapeutics / Mark Harrison

Who Cared? Military Nursing during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642–60 / Eric Gruber von Arni

Privates on Parade: Soldiers, Medicine and the Treatment of Inguinal Hernias in Georgian England / Philip R. Mills

British Naval Health, 1700–1800: Improvement over Time? / Patricia Kathleen Crimmin

The Medical Profession and Representations of the Navy, 1750–1815 / Margarette Lincoln

From Palace to Hut: The Architecture of Military and Naval Medicine / Christine Stevenson

Internal Influences in the Making of the English Military Hospital: The Early-Eighteenth-Century Greenwich / Geoffrey L. Hudson

Notes on Contributors / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830

Index / Editors British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0493-4

1-4356-1422-4

OCLC:

714567370

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401204934 DOI