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  • Title: Difference and Disease
  • Author : Suman Seth
  • Release Date : January 12, 2018
  • Genre: Medical,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 5971 KB

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Introduction; Part I. Locality; 1: 'The same Diseases here as in Europe'? Health and Locality before 1700; 2. Changes in the Air: William Hillary & English Medicine in the West Indies, 1720-1760; Part II: Empire; 3. Seasoning Sickness and the Imaginative Geography of the British Empire; 4. Imperial Medicine and the Putrefactive Paradigm, 1720-1800; Part III: Race; 5. Race-Medicine in the Colonies, 1679-1750; 6. Race, Slavery, and Polygenism: Edward Long and The History of Jamaica; 7. Pathologies of Blackness: Race-Medicine, Slavery, and Abolitionism; Conclusion

In this clever and often startling book, Suman Seth re-evaluates the complex histories of tropical medicine and colonial politics through a fascinating study of the plantation systems of the eighteenth-century Caribbean. These new histories offer a fresh perspective on the meaning and effects of the slave economy and the roles of physicians, merchants and naturalists in the forging of Atlantic racism. Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge

In this postcolonial history of colonial medicine Suman Seth addresses the question as to why race emerged as a critical axis of difference in the late eighteenth century. His detailed exploration of 'race-medicine' demonstrates the coming-into-being of racial categories and binaries through the division of the world into tropical and temperate zones, places of familiarity and strangeness. Difference and Disease marks an important addition to our understanding of race making in the imperial world. Catherine Hall, University College London

Suman Seth's brilliantly forensic analysis goes further than any previous work in demonstrating the importance of medicine in the formation of racial thinking in early British colonialism. This impressive scholarship demands close reading from scholars of knowledge, prejudice and the body, from science studies to Atlantic history. James Delbourgo, Rutgers University.


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