Materials and Medicine

出版者:Manchester University Press

作者:Pratik Chakrabarti

页数:272

出版时间:2011-1-15

价格:USD 89.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780719083129

丛书系列:Studies in Imperialism

图书标签:医疗史醫療史科学史清史海外中国研究明清史早期现代中国医疗史

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.