Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire: Global Health Histories
Autor Suman Sethen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781108407007
ISBN-10: 1108407005
Pagini: 340
Dimensiuni: 230 x 150 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Global Health Histories
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1108407005
Pagini: 340
Dimensiuni: 230 x 150 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Global Health Histories
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction; Part I. Locality: 1: 'The same diseases here as in Europe'? Health and locality before 1700; 2. Changes in the air: William Hillary and English medicine in the West Indies, 1720–1760; Part II. Empire: 3. Seasoning sickness and the imaginative geography of the British Empire; 4. Imperial medicine and the putrefactive paradigm, 1720–1800; Part III. Race: 5. Race-medicine in the colonies, 1679–1750; 6. Race, slavery, and polygenism: Edward Long and the history of Jamaica; 7. Pathologies of blackness: race-medicine, slavery, and abolitionism; Conclusion.
Recenzii
'In this clever and often startling book, Suman Seth re-evaluates the complex histories of tropical medicine and colonial politics through a fascinating study of the plantation systems of the eighteenth-century Caribbean. These new histories offer a fresh perspective on the meaning and effects of the slave economy and the roles of physicians, merchants and naturalists in the forging of Atlantic racism.' Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge
'In this postcolonial history of colonial medicine Suman Seth addresses the question as to why race emerged as a critical axis of difference in the late eighteenth century. His detailed exploration of 'race-medicine' demonstrates the coming-into-being of racial categories and binaries through the division of the world into tropical and temperate zones, places of familiarity and strangeness. Difference and Disease marks an important addition to our understanding of race making in the imperial world.' Catherine Hall, University College London
'Suman Seth's brilliantly forensic analysis goes further than any previous work in demonstrating the importance of medicine in the formation of racial thinking in early British colonialism. This impressive scholarship demands close reading from scholars of knowledge, prejudice and the body, from science studies to Atlantic history.' James Delbourgo, Rutgers University, New Jersey
'Suman Seth's Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire is a well-researched, focused, eloquently phrased, and original work that both academics and students can use for teaching or further writing purposes.' Eszter Ureczky, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
'Seth has written a book of great value for scholars in a nest of related historical fields. Simply from the standpoint of the history of race, its contribution is quite singular.' Jonathan Marks, Isis
'In this postcolonial history of colonial medicine Suman Seth addresses the question as to why race emerged as a critical axis of difference in the late eighteenth century. His detailed exploration of 'race-medicine' demonstrates the coming-into-being of racial categories and binaries through the division of the world into tropical and temperate zones, places of familiarity and strangeness. Difference and Disease marks an important addition to our understanding of race making in the imperial world.' Catherine Hall, University College London
'Suman Seth's brilliantly forensic analysis goes further than any previous work in demonstrating the importance of medicine in the formation of racial thinking in early British colonialism. This impressive scholarship demands close reading from scholars of knowledge, prejudice and the body, from science studies to Atlantic history.' James Delbourgo, Rutgers University, New Jersey
'Suman Seth's Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire is a well-researched, focused, eloquently phrased, and original work that both academics and students can use for teaching or further writing purposes.' Eszter Ureczky, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
'Seth has written a book of great value for scholars in a nest of related historical fields. Simply from the standpoint of the history of race, its contribution is quite singular.' Jonathan Marks, Isis
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Descriere
Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.