The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities), author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicinal plants--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Medicinal plants.

Medicinal plants--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Gardens, Georgian--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Gardens, Georgian.

Gardens, Georgian--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Botany, Medical--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Botany, Medical.

Botany, Medical--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Horticulture--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Horticulture.

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

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 238 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

Summary:

A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation. As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Quick Guide to the Key Medical Practitioners and Their Gardens

Introduction : Illuminating the Doctor's Garden

Educating the Senses : The Botanic Garden as a Teaching and Research Center

Creating a Perpetual Spring : Tracing Private Botanic Collectors and Their Networks

For "Curiosity and Instruction" : Visiting the Botanic Garden

"Hints or Directions" : Reading the Doctor's Garden

For Dulce and Utile : The Garden as Both Ornament and Farm

This "Terrestrial Elysium" : Sociability and the Garden

Epilogue : The Stories We Tell : Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780300236101

0300236107

OCLC:

1245472244

Publisher Number:

99988667099