Health, Medicine, and the Sea : Australian Voyages, C. 1815-60.

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Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foxhall, Katherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
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.
Prisonniers > Australie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
History Of Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Penal transportation
Prisoners
Prisoners > Health and hygiene
Australia
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Health, medicine, and the sea: Australian Voyages, c.1815-1860; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Maps and figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Problems of departure; 2. Steaming ships; 3. Geographies of the tropical Atlantic; 4. Such concentrated mischief': scurvy and imprisonment; 5. Trust and authority below the hatches; 6. From emigrants to immigrants: quarantine and the colony; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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