Merchant seamen's health : 1860-1960 : medicine, technology, shipowners and the state in britain /

Discusses the many measures taken in this period to improve seamen''s health and fitness.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carter, Tim (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Suffolk, England ; Rochester, New York : The Boydell Press, 2014.
Series:JSTOR EBA.
Subjects:
Sailors > Medical care > Great Britain.
Health care reform > Great Britain.
Medicine, Naval.
Naval Medicine
Marins > Soins médicaux > Grande-Bretagne.
Services de santé > Réforme > Grande-Bretagne.
Médecine navale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Medicine, Naval
Health care reform
Sailors > Medical care
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Glossary of nautical terms used; Introduction; 1 Health at sea before 1860; 2 Unseaworthy seamen; 3 The health of merchant seamen in the nineteenth century; 4 Injury and disease at sea in the nineteenth century; 5 The seaman ashore: victim, threat or patient?; 6 Bad food and donkey's breakfasts; 7 Fit for lookout duties; 8 The long-term health of seamen; 9 War, manpower and fitness for service; 10 Seamen's health in the welfare state; 11 Retrospect and prospect; Bibliography; Index.

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