Merchant Seamen's Health, 1860-1960: Medicine, Technology, Shipowners and the State in Britain

by Tim Carter

This book examines successive campaigns fought by reformers to improve seamen's health and fitness, sometimes aided by, often opposed by, bureaucracies and vested interests, such as ship-owners. It shows how these campaigns originated; how reformers, bureaucracies and vested interests interacted; and how far the campaigns succeeded. Among the many successes were the controls for infectious diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis and venereal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843839520
• ISBN13: 9781843839521
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"