Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century (Studies in Imperialism)
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Pratik Chakrabarti (Author)
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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, colonization 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. -- . Illustrations, black & white
About the Author
Pratik Chakrabarti is Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine at the University of Kent -- .
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- Contributor: Pratik Chakrabarti
- Imprint: Manchester University Press
- ISBN13: 9780719083129
- Number of Pages: 272
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x234x16mm
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Release Date: 2010-10-22
- Series: Studies in Imperialism
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Pratik Chakrabarti is Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine at the University of Kent -- .
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