Medicine and Empire 1600-1960
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English | January 23, 2014 | ISBN: 0230276350 | 280 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history – spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America.
Exploring the major developments in European medicine from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Pratik Chakrabarti shows that the major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European activities overseas:
– The increasing influence of natural history on medicine
– The growth of European drug markets
– The rise of surgeons in status
– Ideas of race and racism
– Advancements in sanitation and public health
– The expansion of the modern quarantine system
– The emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns
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, and provides an original, accessible insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today.
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