Awards

• Winner of winner of the Harold D. Langley Book Award 2016 (UK)

Overview

During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and the sea follows these people on a fascinating journey around half the globe to give a rich account of the creation of lay and professional medical knowledge in an ever-changing maritime environment. From consumptive convicts who pleaded that going to sea was their only chance of recovery, to sailors who performed macabre 'medical' rituals during equatorial ceremonies off the African coast, to surgeons' formal experiments with scurvy in the southern hemisphere oceans, to furious letters from quarantined emigrants just a few miles from Sydney, this wide-ranging and evocative study brings the experience and meaning of voyaging to life. Katherine Foxhall makes an important contribution to the history of medicine, imperialism and migration which will appeal to students and researchers alike. -- .

Full Product Details

Author:   Katherine Foxhall ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9780719085710

ISBN 10:   0719085713
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   20 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Problems of departure 2: Steaming ships Voyage I: Eliza Baldwinson 3: Geographies of the tropical Atlantic 4: Such concealed mischief: scurvy and imprisonment 5: Trust and authority below the hatches Voyage II: Henry Wellings 6: From emigrants to immigrants: quarantine and the colony Conclusion Bibliography Index -- .

Reviews

Health, Medicine and the Sea is a triumph . Alison Bashford, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 14, Number 2 -- . A fascinating history, providing a perceptive analysis ... 'Health, Medicine and the Sea' has contributed valuably to both the history of medicine and the historiography of global connection Alexander Cameron-Smith, Social History of Medicine Vol. 26, No. 3 -- . This is an excellent and persuasive work, marrying the histories of medicine, penal transportation, and colonialism with maritime geography. -- Zoe Laidlaw. Using such a fascinating source, as well as voyage narratives, Foxhall successfully dismisses previous notions that such ships carried 'silent cargos' under the patriarchal watch of the surgeon-superintendents. -- Jennifer Kain.

Health, Medicine and the Sea is a triumph . Alison Bashford, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 14, Number 2 -- . A fascinating history, providing a perceptive analysis ... 'Health, Medicine and the Sea' has contributed valuably to both the history of medicine and the historiography of global connection Alexander Cameron-Smith, Social History of Medicine Vol. 26, No. 3 -- .

Author Information

Katherine Foxhall is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History at King's College London -- .

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