Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies 1660-1830

by Mark Harrison

Medicine in an age of Commerce and Empire explores the impact of commercial and imperial expansion on British medicine from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Concentrating largely (though not exclusively) on India and the West Indies, it shows how medical practitioners in the colonies began to develop an empirical and experimental approach to medicine that was in many respects in advance of that in Britain. By the late...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199577730
• ISBN13: 9780199577736
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"