Venomous encounters : snakes, vivisection and scientific medicine in colonial Australia / Peter Hobbins.

Venomous encounters presents a radically new view of the role of science and scientific methodology in the colonies. It explores the role of snakes, snakebite and snake venom in the emerging science of 19th-century Australia and India, the neglected significance of inter-colony exchanges and conflic...

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Main Author: Hobbins, Peter (Author)
Other Authors: Thompson, Andrew (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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