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Health and medicine at sea, 1700-1900
- Title
- Health and medicine at sea, 1700-1900 / edited by David Boyd Haycock and Sally Archer.
- Publication
- Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2009.
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- Description
- xiv, 229 pages : illustrations
- Summary
- "Maritime medicine, together with its links to the development of empire, is a burgeoning area of historical interest and enquiry. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the history of health and medicine in maritime and imperial contexts in a key period, reflecting the growing professionalization of medicine at sea from the establishment of the Sick and Hurt Board to the end of the Victorian era. The chapters, written by leading experts in the field, are grouped around two central themes: Royal Naval medical policy, administration and practice; and health and mortality relating to the migration of peoples across the globe, including slavery, emigration and indentured migration. The book will be of interest to a wide range of historians, particularly those working in the fields of maritime history, the history of medicine, and the history of colonialism and imperialism."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Great Britain. Royal Navy > Medical care > History > 18th century
- Great Britain. Royal Navy > Medical care > History > 19th century
- Great Britain Royal Navy
- Great Britain. Royal Navy
- 1700-1899
- Geschichte 1700-1900
- Medicine, Naval > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Medicine, Naval > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Medicine > History > 18th century
- Naval Medicine > history
- General Surgery > history
- History, 18th Century
- History, 19th Century
- Medicine
- Armed Forces > Medical care
- British colonies
- Medicine, Naval
- Schifffahrtsmedizin
- Navalmedicin > historia > 1700-1900
- Great Britain > Colonies > History > 18th century
- Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century
- United Kingdom
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : health, medicine and the maritime world : a history of two centuries / David Boyd Haycock -- "The intention is certain noble" : the Western Squadron, medical trials and the sick and hurt board during the Seven Years War (1756-63) / Erica M. Charters -- Royal Navy surgeons, 1793-1815 : a collective biography / Michael Crumplin -- The sick and hurt board : fit for purpose? / Pat Crimmin -- An "important and truly national subject" : the West African service and the health of the Royal Navy in the mid nineteenth century / Mark Harrison -- Mortality and migration : a survey / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Ralph Shlomowitz -- Slave purchasing strategies and shipboard mortality : day-to-day evidence from the Dutch African trade, 1751-1797 / Simon J. Hogerzeil and David Richardson -- Ships, families and surgeons : migrant voyages to Australia in the age of the sail / Robin Haines -- Medical encounters on the Kala Pani : regulation and resistance in the passage of indentured Indian migrants, 1834-1900 / Laurence Brown and Radica Mahase.
- ISBN
- 9781843835226
- 1843835223
- OCLC
- ocn432408058
- 432408058
- SCSB-1540237
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library