Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

ISBN-13: 9781108407007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 340 str.

Suman Seth

Opis

Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

Recenzje

'Seth has written a book of great value for scholars in a nest of related historical fields. Simply from the standpoint of the history of race, its contribution is quite singular.' Jonathan Marks, Isis

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Locality: 1: 'The same diseases here as in Europe'? Health and locality before 1700; 2. Changes in the air: William Hillary and English medicine in the West Indies, 1720–1760; Part II. Empire: 3. Seasoning sickness and the imaginative geography of the British Empire; 4. Imperial medicine and the putrefactive paradigm, 1720–1800; Part III. Race: 5. Race-medicine in the colonies, 1679–1750; 6. Race, slavery, and polygenism: Edward Long and the history of Jamaica; 7. Pathologies of blackness: race-medicine, slavery, and abolitionism; Conclusion.