Chakrabarti, Pratik (2013) Medicine and Empire, 1600-1960. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke ISBN 9780230276369. (In press)
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Abstract
Spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America, this book demonstrates that the history of medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Beginning in the seventeenth century, medicine became modern at the same time as it was becoming colonial. The increasing influence of natural history on early modern medicine, the growth of European drug markets, the rise of surgeons in status, developments in ideas of sanitation and public health, the expansion of modern quarantine systems and, finally, the emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns – all these major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European overseas activities. Drawing on recent scholarship and primary texts, this book narrates a mutually constitutive history in which medicine was both a ‘tool’ and a product of imperialism. The analysis presented in this volume thus provides an original insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today. CONTENTS Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Medicine in the Age of Commerce: 1600-1800 Chapter 2: Plants, Medicine and Empire Chapter 3: Medicine and the Colonial Armed Forces Chapter 4: Colonialism, Climate and Race Chapter 5: Imperialism and the Globalization of Disease Chapter 6: Western Medicine in Colonial India Chapter 7: Medicine and the Colonization of Africa Chapter 8: Imperialism and Tropical Medicine Chapter 9: Bacteriology and the Civilizing Mission Chapter 10: Colonialism and Traditional Medicines Conclusion: The Colonial Legacies of Global Health
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Humanities > School of History |
| Depositing User: | Pratik Chakrabarti |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2010 18:51 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2013 19:36 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/23591 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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