Disease, Medicine and Empire

Disease, Medicine and Empire

Taylor & Francis

Disease, Medicine and EmpirePerspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion\nAuthor(s): Roy Macleod, Milton J Lewis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032235394, 978-1032235394\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of empire, as well as constituting an imperializing cultural force in itself, reflecting in different contexts, the objectives of European expansion whether to conquer, to occupy or to settle. With chapters from a distinguished array of social and medical historians, colonial medicine is examined in its topical, regional and professional diversity. Ranging from tropical to temperate regions, from 18th Century colonial America to 20th Century South Africa, thi.

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