9781108418300-1108418309-Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Global Health Histories)

Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Global Health Histories)

ISBN-13: 9781108418300
ISBN-10: 1108418309
Edition: 1
Author: Suman Seth
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781108418300
ISBN-10: 1108418309
Edition: 1
Author: Suman Seth
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 336 pages

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Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Global Health Histories) (ISBN-13: 9781108418300 and ISBN-10: 1108418309), written by authors Suman Seth, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Internal Medicine (Medicine) books. You can easily purchase or rent Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Global Health Histories) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Internal Medicine books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers needed to become 'seasoned to the climate'. Suman Seth explores forms of eighteenth-century medical knowledge, including conceptions of seasoning, showing how geographical location was essential to this knowledge and helped to define relationships between Britain and her far-flung colonies. In this period, debates raged between medical practitioners over whether diseases changed in different climes. Different diseases were deemed characteristic of different races and genders, and medical practitioners were thus deeply involved in contestations over race and the legitimacy of the abolitionist cause. In this innovative and engaging history, Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual shaping of medicine, race, and empire.

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