Disease And Empire

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Disease Medicine And Empire

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Author : Roy Macleod
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-05-24

Disease Medicine And Empire written by Roy Macleod and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with History categories.

Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of European expansion – whether to conquer, to occupy or to settle. With chapters from a distinguished array of social and medical historians, colonial medicine is examined in its topical, regional and professional diversity. Ranging from tropical to temperate regions, from 18th Century colonial America to 20th Century South Africa, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of the influence of European medicine on imperial history.

Disease And Empire

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Author : Philip D. Curtin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-28

Disease And Empire written by Philip D. Curtin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-28 with History categories.

This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa.

Leprosy And Empire

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Author : Rod Edmond
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-30

Leprosy And Empire written by Rod Edmond and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with History categories.

An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the disease in 'colonies', often on offshore islands. Discussion of the segregation of lepers is then extended to analogous examples of this practice, which, it is argued, has been an essential part of the repertoire of colonialism in the modern period. The book also examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a discussion of traveller-writers such as R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who described and fictionalised their experience of staying in a leper colony.

Doctors And Diseases In The Roman Empire

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Author : Ralph Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Doctors And Diseases In The Roman Empire written by Ralph Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History of medicine, Ancient categories.

Arzt - Medizin - Krankheit - Geburt - Tod.

Difference And Disease

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Author : Suman Seth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-07

Difference And Disease written by Suman Seth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-07 with History categories.

Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

Immunities Of Empire

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Author : Warwick Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Immunities Of Empire written by Warwick Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Diseases categories.

A History Of Disease In Ancient Times

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Author : Philip Norrie
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-06-25

A History Of Disease In Ancient Times written by Philip Norrie and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-25 with History categories.

This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the Carthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseases present in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survival either avoiding or fighting against these infectious disease epidemics. The book will argue that infectious disease epidemics are a critical link in the chain of causation for the demise of most civilizations in the ancient world and that ancient historians should no longer ignore them, as is currently the case.

Maladies Of Empire

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Author : Jim Downs
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-12

Maladies Of Empire written by Jim Downs and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Science categories.

A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of LondonÕs 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence NightingaleÕs contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease. Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of nonconsenting subjectsÑconscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire. Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by surveilling Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission. The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics. Boldly argued and eye-opening, Maladies of Empire gives a full account of the true price of medical progress.

Empires Of Panic

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Author : Robert Peckham
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-01

Empires Of Panic written by Robert Peckham and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with History categories.

Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings—from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial anxieties, rumors, indigenous resistance, and crises, particularly in relation to epidemic disease. How did Western government agencies, policymakers, planners, and other authorities understand, deal with, and neutralize panics? What role did evolving technologies of communication play in the amplification of local panics into global events? Engaging with these questions, the book challenges conventional histories to show how intensifying processes of intelligence gathering did not consolidate empire, but rather served to produce critical uncertainties—the uneven terrain of imperial panic. Robert Peckham is associate professor in the Department of History and co-director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. "Charting the relays of rumor and knowledge that stoke colonial fears of disease, disorder, and disaster, Empires of Panic offers timely and cautionary insight into how viscerally epidemics inflame imperial anxieties, and how words and their communication over new technologies accelerate panic, rally government intervention, and unsettle and entrench the exercise of global power. Relevant a century ago and even more so today." — Nayan Shah, University of Southern California; author ofContagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown "Empires generated anxiety as much as ambition. This fine study focuses on anxieties generated by disease. It is the first book of its kind to track shifting forms of panic through different geopolitical regimes and imperial formations over the course of two centuries. Working across medical and imperial histories, it is a major contribution to both." — Andrew S. Thompson, University of Exeter; author of Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c. 1850–1914(with Gary B. Magee)

Disease And History

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Author : Frederick Fox Cartwright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

Disease And History written by Frederick Fox Cartwright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Medical categories.

Cites specific instances in which disease affecting powerful individuals and societies has influenced the course of history.