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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foxhall, Katherine, author.

Series:

Manchester History of Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Naval--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Medicine, Naval.

Immigrants--Health and hygiene--Australia--History--19th century.

Immigrants.

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

Prisoners.

Prisoners--Health and hygiene--Australia--History--19th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Description based on print record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

1-5261-3015-7

OCLC:

1408681788