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Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century

Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century

Chakrabarti, Pratik

Paperback

Series: Studies in Imperialism, Book 84

Sports GeneralGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0719096545
ISBN13: 9780719096549
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Dec 31 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare. Bringing together a wide range of sources, this book argues that the intellectual developments in European medicine were inextricably linked to histories of conquest, colonisation and the establishment of colonial institutions.

This is the first book to trace the links between colonialism and medicine on such a geographical and conceptual scale. Chakrabarti examines the texts, plants, minerals, colonial hospitals, dispensatories and the works of surgeons, missionaries and travellers to demonstrate that these were shaped by the material constitution of eighteenth century European colonialism.

This book will appeal to experts and students in histories of medicine, science, and imperialism as well as south Asian and Caribbean history.

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