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Medicine and Empire - 1600-1960 (Paperback)
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Medicine and Empire - 1600-1960 (Paperback)
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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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