Difference and disease: medicine, race, and the eighteenth-century british empire
Auteur :
Seth, Suman
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108418300
Date de publication :
7 juin 2018
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,7 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
690 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Suman Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual construction of medicine, race, and empire in the eighteenth century. Readers will find medical writers engaging with abolitionism and the care of the enslaved, and will be able to track the ways that medicine created modern notions of racial difference.