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The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834 - Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity (Hardcover)
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The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834 - Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was
known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British
colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread
of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations
made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on
earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and
travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the
cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the
Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery.
Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical
geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to
the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the
Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the
changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the
transition to modernity.
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