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Title British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830 / edited by Geoffrey L. Hudson
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations
Series Wellcome series in the history of medicine
Clio medica, 0045-7183 ; 81
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 81.
Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Contents 1. Introduction: British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830 -- 2. Warfare and the Creation of British Imperial Medicine, 1600-1800 -- 3. The British Army in North America and the West Indies, 1755-83: A Medical Perspective -- 4. Disease and Medicine in the Armies of British India, 1750-1830: The Treatment of Fevers and the Emergence of Tropical Therapeutics -- 5. Who Cared? Military Nursing during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642-60 -- 6. Privates on Parade: Soldiers, Medicine and the Treatment of Inguinal Hernias in Georgian England -- 7. British Naval Health, 1700-1800: Improvement over Time? -- 8. The Medical Profession and Representations of the Navy, 1750-1815 -- 9. From Palace to Hut: The Architecture of Military and Naval Medicine -- 10. Internal Influences in the Making of the English Military Hospital: The Early-Eighteenth-Century Greenwich
Summary Annotation Standing armies and navies brought with them military medical establishments, shifting the focus of disease management from individuals to groups. Prevention, discipline, and surveillance produced results, and career opportunities for physicians and surgeons. All these developments had an impact on medicine and society, and were in turn influenced by them. The essays within examine these phenomena, exploring the imperial context, nursing and medicine in Britain, naval medicine, as well as the relationship between medicine, the state and society. British Military and Naval Medicine challenges the notion that military medicine was, in all respects, 'a good thing?. The so-called monopoly of military medicine and the authoritarian structures within the military were complex and, at times, successfully contested. Sometimes changes were imposed that cannot be characterised as improvements. British Military and Naval Medicine also points to opportunities for further research in this exciting field of study
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Medicine, Naval -- History -- 16th century
Medicine, Naval -- History -- 17th century
Medicine, Military -- History -- 16th century
Military Medicine -- history
Naval Medicine -- history
History, Modern 1601-
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
Medicine, Military
Medicine, Naval
Militärmedizin
Marinemedizin
Militaire geneeskunde.
SUBJECT United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Subject Großbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Genre/Form History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Hudson, Geoffrey L
ISBN 9781435614222
1435614224
9789401204934
9401204934