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. -- .
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