Book ID: CBB001200673

Health, Medicine, and the Sea: Australian Voyages, c. 1815--1860 (2012)

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Foxhall, Katherine (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xi + 250 pp.; bibl.; index; ill.; maps
Language: English

During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and the sea follows these people on a fascinating journey around half the globe to give a rich account of the creation of lay and professional medical knowledge in an ever-changing maritime environment. From consumptive convicts who pleaded that going to sea was their only chance of recovery, to sailors who performed macabre `medical' rituals during equatorial ceremonies off the African coast, to surgeons' formal experiments with scurvy in the southern hemisphere oceans, to furious letters from quarantined emigrants just a few miles from Sydney, this wide-ranging and evocative study brings the experience and meaning of voyaging to life. Katherine Foxhall makes an important contribution to the history of medicine, imperialism and migration which will appeal to students and researchers alike.

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Authors & Contributors
Hill, David
Wald, Erica
Goc, Nicolá
Starbuck, Nicole
Pearn, John
Pati, Biswamoy
Concepts
Great Britain, colonies
Colonialism
Medicine
Health
Sea travel
Public health
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
17th century
Places
Australia
England
Great Britain
France
India
Sydney (Australia)
Institutions
East India Company (English)
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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