Book ID: CBB316747000

The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain (2021)

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Hickman, Clare (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 288
Language: English

A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation’s public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration.

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Authors & Contributors
Christina Harrison
Tchikine, Anatole
Cahalan, Sarah Burke
Dowe, John Leslie
LaBouff, Nicole
Williams, J'Nese
Concepts
Botany
Horticulture
Gardens
Imperialism
Science and literature
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Australia
England
Hanover (Germany)
Mediterranean region
London (England)
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Chelsea Physic Garden
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