The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834 : slavery, disease and colonial modernity /

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Author / Creator:	Senior, Emily, 1978- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; 119 Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 119.
Subject:	Medicine -- Caribbean Area -- 19th century -- History. Medicine -- Caribbean Area -- 20th century -- History. Communicable diseases -- Caribbean Area -- 19th century -- History. Communicable diseases -- Caribbean Area -- 20th century -- History. Medical literature -- History. Public Health -- history Caribbean Region Communicable diseases Medical literature Medicine Caribbean Area History
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14139091

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ISBN:	9781108271554 1108271553 9781108241977 1108241972 9781108416818 1108416810 9781108404198 1108404197 1108266096 9781108266093
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity.
Other form:	Print version: 9781108416818 1108416810

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