Medicine and Empire, 1600-1960 - by Pratik Chakrabarti (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. <i>Medicine and Empire</i> provides an introduction to this shared history - spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America. <p/>Exploring the major developments in European medicine from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Pratik Chakrabarti shows that the major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European activities overseas: <p/>- The increasing influence of natural history on medicine<br>- The growth of European drug markets<br>- The rise of surgeons in status<br>- Ideas of race and racism<br>- Advancements in sanitation and public health<br>- The expansion of the modern quarantine system<br>- The emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns <p/>Drawing on recent scholarship and primary texts, this book narrates a mutually constitutive history in which medicine was both a 'tool' and a product of imperialism, and provides an original, accessible insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. <em>Medicine and Empire</em> provides an introduction to this shared history - spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America. <br/><br/>Exploring the major developments in European medicine from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Pratik Chakrabarti shows that the major developments in European medicine had a colonial counterpart and were closely intertwined with European activities overseas: <br/><br/>- the increasing influence of natural history on medicine<br/>- the growth of European drug markets<br/>- the rise of surgeons in status<br/>- ideas of race and racism<br/>- advancements in sanitation and public health<br/>- the expansion of the modern quarantine system <br/>- the emergence of Germ theory and global vaccination campaigns.<br/><br/>Drawing on recent scholarship and primary texts, this book narrates a mutually constitutive history in which medicine was both a 'tool' and a product of imperialism, and provides an original, accessible insight into the deep historical roots of the problems that plague global health today.<br/><br/><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Pratik Chakrabarti is Reader in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices (2004), Material and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century (2010) and Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (2012). He is also one of the editors of the journal Social History of Medicine.<br>Pratik Chakrabarti is Reader in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices (2004), Material and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century (2010) and Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (2012). He is also one of the editors of the journal Social History of Medicine.</p>
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