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Author:   Mark Harrison (Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780199577736

ISBN 10:   0199577730
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   16 September 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Medicine as natural history 1: Climate, fevers, and medicine before 1700 2: Sydenham and Boerhaave in the tropics 3: The medicine of warm climates 4: Pathology, physiology, and race Tropical therapeutics 1: Inflamed bodies 2: Exotics and antiseptics 3: Empire of experiment 4: A therapeutic revolution Ills of empire 1: Invalids and entrepreneurs 2: The voyager returns 3: Albion's coast is sick 4: The prospect of invasion Conclusion Bibliography

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Beyond its obvious value for historians of (colonial and imperial) medicine, Harrison's example are applicable to histoians of science and more adventurous intellectual historians willing to engage with some technical material. The bibliography alone is worthy of consultation by anyone seeking a well-organized and thorough background in colonial medicine. Jessica Baron, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Author Information

Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War.

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