Venomous encounters : snakes, vivisection and scientific medicine in colonial Australia

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)
Subjects:
1788-1900
Venom > Australia > History.
Vivisection > Australia > History.
Poisonous snakes > Venom > Australia > History.
HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand.
Poisonous snakes > Venom
Venom
Vivisection
Australia > History > 1788-1900.
Australia
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History
Livres numériques.
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