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Difference and disease : medicine, race, and the eighteenth-century British Empire / Suman Seth.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seth, Suman, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Global health histories (Series)
- Global health histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical geography--History--18th century.
- Medical geography.
- Diseases--Causes and theories of causation--History--18th century.
- Diseases.
- Imperialism--History--18th century.
- Imperialism.
- History.
- Racism--History--18th century.
- Racism.
- Diseases--Causes and theories of causation.
- West Indies.
- Great Britain.
- Geography, Medical--history.
- Travel-Related Illness.
- Climate.
- Colonialism--history.
- Racism--history.
- History, 18th Century.
- United Kingdom.
- Medical Subjects:
- Geography, Medical--history.
- Travel-Related Illness.
- Climate.
- Colonialism--history.
- Racism--history.
- History, 18th Century.
- West Indies.
- United Kingdom.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 324 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- "The same diseases here as in Europe"? : health and locality before 1700
- Changes in the air : William Hillary & English medicine in the West Indies, 1720-1760
- Seasoning sickness and the imaginative geography of the British empire
- Imperial medicine and the putrefactive paradigm, 1720-1800
- Race-medicine in the colonies, 1679-1750
- Race, slavery, and polygenism : Edward Long and the history of Jamaica
- Pathologies of blackness : race-medicine, slavery, and abolitionism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781108289726
- 110828972X
- Publisher Number:
- 99983972425
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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