TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834 : slavery, disease and colonial modernity
T2  - Cambridge studies in Romanticism
A1  - Senior, Emily, 1978- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5497775
AB  - "During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834, the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas, and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity"--
SN  - 978-1-108-41681-8 sidottu
KW  - Medicine : Caribbean Area : History.
KW  - Communicable diseases : Caribbean Area : History.
KW  - Medical literature : History.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Communicable diseases.
KW  - Medical literature.
KW  - Medicine.
KW  - Public Health : history.
KW  - Caribbean Region.
KW  - Caribbean Area.
ER  -