Book ID: CBB000110497

Romanticism and Colonial Disease (1999)

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Bewell, Alan (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: xviii + 373 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Discusses perception of colonies as pathogenic areas in writings by colonial physicians as well as Romantic writers such as Keats, Joseph Ritchie, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, etc.


Reviewed By

Review Levine, Philippa (2003) Review of "Romanticism and Colonial Disease". Social History of Medicine (p. 144). unapi

Review Au, Sokhieng (2002) Review of "Romanticism and Colonial Disease". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 206). unapi

Review Sangwan, Satpal (2003) Review of "Romanticism and Colonial Disease". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 747). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Steve Howard
Mokake, Flavius M.
Geddes da Filicaia, Costanza
Wang, Fuson
Sacks, Oliver
Concepts
Medicine and society
Disease and diseases
Medicine and literature
Colonialism
Public health
Medicine
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Great Britain
India
Tropics
Cameroon (Country)
Middle and Near East
South Asia
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