Health and medicine at sea, 1700-1900
2009
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The author explores the history of health and medicine in maritime and imperial contexts in a key period, reflecting the growing professionalization of medicine at sea from the establishment of the Sick and Hurt Board to the end of the Victorian era.
Main title:
Health and medicine at sea, 1700-1900 / edited by David Boyd Haycock & Sally Archer.
Imprint:
Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2009.
Collation:
256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781843835226 (hbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Medical care -- History -- 18th centuryGreat Britain. Royal Navy -- Medical care -- History -- 19th centuryMedicine, Naval -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryMedicine, Naval -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryGreat Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th centuryGreat Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th centuryHealth and Wellbeing
BRN:
1754415
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