Health, medicine, and the sea : Australian voyages, c.1815-1860 /

During the 19th 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 kn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foxhall, Katherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Temas:
1800-1899
Penal transportation > Australia > History > 19th century.
Prisoners > Transportation > Medical care > History > 19th century.
Convict ships > Health aspects.
Prisoners > Health and hygiene.
Prisoners > Australia > History > 19th century.
Seas.
Naval Medicine > history
History, 19th Century
Oceans and Seas
Prisoners > history
Transients and Migrants > history
Travel Medicine > history
Prisonniers > Australie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mers.
seas.
Prisoners.
Penal transportation.
Australia
United Kingdom
Australia.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Problems of departure
  • 2. Steaming ships
  • Voyage I: Eliza Baldwinson (1832)
  • 3. Geographies of the tropical Atlantic
  • 4. "Such concentrated mischief": scurvy and imprisonment
  • 5. Trust and authority below the hatches
  • Voyage II: Henry Wellings (1858)
  • 6. From emigrants to immigrants: quarantine and the colony.

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