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Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Global Health Histories)

Full title: Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Global Health Histories)
ISBN: 9781108418300
ISBN 10: 1108418309
Authors: Seth, Suman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1
Num. pages: 336
Binding: Kindle Edition
Language: en
Published on: 2018

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Synopsis

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. Suman Seth. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.