Medicine and empire, 1600-1960

Medicine and empire, 1600-1960 / Pratik Chakrabarti.

Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history - spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spansh imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chakrabarti, Pratik (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:	Medicine > Great Britain > Colonies > History. Medicine > France > Colonies > History. Medicine > Spain > Colonies > History. Imperialism > Health aspects. Imperialism and science. Medicine > History. Informational works. History.

Table of Contents:

1. Medicine in the Age of Commerce, 1600
1800
2. Plants, medicine and empire
3. Medicine and the colonial armed forces
4. Colonialism, climate and race
5. Imperialism and the globalization of disease
6. Western medicine in colonial India
7. Medicine and the colonization of Africa
8. Imperialism and tropical medicine
9. Bacteriology and the civilizing mission
10. Colonialism and traditional medicines.