Imperial bodies in London : empire, mobility, and the making of British medicine, 1880-1914 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hussey, Kristin D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
Colección:Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Temas:
1800-1899
Medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Médecine > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
British colonies.
Civilization.
Medicine.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 19e siècle.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue. Imperial Bodies in the Museum
  • Introduction. Medicine and Empire in London
  • Part I. Disease, Environment, and the Ex-colonial at Home
  • Chapter 1. The Tropical Invalid's Liver: Climate, Health, and Reacclimatization
  • Chapter 2. The "Indian Insane's" Brain: Making Sunstroke Insanity
  • Part II. Networks, Mobility, and Knowing Medicine at a Distance
  • Chapter 3. Empire of the Eye: Race, Expertise, and the (Im)Mobilities of Cataract Surgery
  • Chapter 4. "Something in his blood": Patrick Manson's Networks of Tropical Disease
  • Conclusion. The Cosmopolitanism of Imperial Disease
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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