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Anglický jazyk
Medicine and Empire
Autor: Pratik Chakrabarti
The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history - spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and... Viac o knihe
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The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history - spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America.
Exploring the major developments in European medicine from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Pratik Chakrabarti shows that the major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European activities overseas:
. the increasing influence of natural history on medicine
. the growth of European drug markets
. the rise of surgeons in status
. ideas of race and racism
. advancements in sanitation and public health
. the expansion of the modern quarantine system
. the emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns.
Drawing on recent scholarship and primary texts, this book narrates a mutually constitutive history in which medicine was both a 'tool' and a product of imperialism, and provides an original, accessible insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today.
- Vydavateľstvo: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Rok vydania: 2013
- Formát: Paperback
- Rozmer: 235 x 155 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780230276369
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