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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.
- Series:
- Yale scholarship online.
- Yale scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815--Homes and haunts.
- Lettsom, John Coakley.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late 18th and early 19th 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 capitalise 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Quick Guide to the Key Medical Practitioners and Their Gardens
- INTRODUCTION Illuminating the Doctor's Garden
- ONE Educating the Senses: The Botanic Garden as a Teaching and Research Center
- TWO Creating a Perpetual Spring: Tracing Private Botanic Collectors and Their Networks
- THREE For "Curiosity and Instruction": Visiting the Botanic Garden
- FOUR "Hints or Directions": Reading the Doctor's Garden
- FIVE For Dulce and Utile: The Garden as Both Ornament and Farm
- SIX This "Terrestrial Elysium": Sociability and the Garden
- EPILOGUE The Stories We Tell: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-26248-5
- OCLC:
- 1267766489
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