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Author : Philip D. Curtin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521598354
This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa.
Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674971721
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.
Author : Suman Seth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418300
Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Author : Philip Norrie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319289373
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.
Author : Roy Macleod,Milton J Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000566154
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.
Author : Ralph Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History of medicine, Ancient
ISBN : OSU:32435087117529
Arzt - Medizin - Krankheit - Geburt - Tod.
Author : Rod Edmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139462877
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.
Author : Ralph Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Medical
ISBN : 080612167X
Topics include the effects of disease and medicine on people at different levels of Roman society, the role of the physician in the Roman army, contraception, drugs, surgery, and magic. Jackson (curator, Department of Pre-historic and Romano-British antiquities, British Museum) adds evidence from excavations, sculptures, reliefs, vases, and wall-paintings to the testimony of ancient medical authors. Fascinating and chilling. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Frederick Fox Cartwright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015012891597
Cites specific instances in which disease affecting powerful individuals and societies has influenced the course of history.
Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745638010
‘Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demonstrates the relationship between European expansion and changing epidemiological patterns. The book is a significant introduction to a fascinating subject.’ Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers State University In this lively and accessible book, Mark Harrison charts the history of disease from the birth of the modern world around 1500 through to the present day. He explores how the rise of modern nation-states was closely linked to the threat posed by disease, and particularly infectious, epidemic diseases. He examines the ways in which disease and its treatment and prevention, changed over the centuries, under the impact of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and with the advent of scientific medicine. For the first time, the author integrates the history of disease in the West with a broader analysis of the rise of the modern world, as it was transformed by commerce, slavery, and colonial rule. Disease played a vital role in this process, easing European domination in some areas, limiting it in others. Harrison goes on to show how a new environment was produced in which poverty and education rather than geography became the main factors in the distribution of disease. Assuming no prior knowledge of the history of disease, Disease and the Modern World provides an invaluable introduction to one of the richest and most important areas of history. It will be essential reading for all undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in the history of disease and medicine, and for anyone interested in how disease has shaped, and has been shaped by, the modern world.
Author : George Raudzens
Publisher : Leiden : Brill
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015054293348
This study consists of eight essays critical of the currently dominant guns and germs theories in the historiography of European colonial conquest causes. Other methods of conquest, notably communication control, were as vital as firepower and disease importation, and motives were often more important than methods.
Author : Robert Peckham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9888313568
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.
Author : Kristin L. Hoganson,Jay Sexton
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478007432
Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia and East Africa to the Caribbean. With case studies ranging from the 1830s to the late twentieth century, the contributors address topics including diplomacy, governance, anticolonialism, labor, immigration, medicine, religion, and race. Their transimperial approach—whether exemplified in examinations of U.S. steel corporations partnering with British imperialists to build the Ugandan railway or the U.S. reliance on other empires in its governance of the Philippines—transcends histories of interimperial rivalries and conflicts. In so doing, the contributors illuminate the power dynamics of seemingly transnational histories and the imperial origins of contemporary globality. Contributors. Ikuko Asaka, Oliver Charbonneau, Genevieve Clutario, Anne L. Foster, Julian Go, Michel Gobat, Julie Greene, Kristin L. Hoganson, Margaret D. Jacobs, Moon-Ho Jung, Marc-William Palen, Nicole M. Phelps, Jay Sexton, John Soluri, Stephen Tuffnell
Author : Anthony J. McMichael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521004942
A compelling account of the relentless trajectory of humankind across time and geography.
Author : Mauro Capocci
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031388057
