Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction Health, Medicine and the Maritime World: A History of Two Centuries
- 1 ‘The Intention is Certain Noble’: The Western Squadron, Medical Trials, and the Sick and Hurt Board during the Seven Years War (1756–63)
- 2 Royal Navy Surgeons, 1793–1815: A Collective Biography
- 3 Surgery in the Royal Navy during the Republican and Napoleonic Wars (1793–1815)
- 4 The Sick and Hurt Board: Fit for Purpose?
- 5 An ‘Important and Truly National Subject’: The West Africa Service and the Health of the Royal Navy in the Mid Nineteenth Century
- 6 Mortality and Migration: A Survey 128
- 7 Slave Purchasing Strategies and Shipboard Mortality: Day-to-Day Evidence from the Dutch African Trade, 1751–1797
- 8 Ships, Families and Surgeons: Migrant Voyages to Australia in the Age of Sail
- 9 Medical Encounters on the Kala Pani: Regulation and Resistance in the Passages of Indentured Indian Migrants, 1834–1900
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction Health, Medicine and the Maritime World: A History of Two Centuries
- 1 ‘The Intention is Certain Noble’: The Western Squadron, Medical Trials, and the Sick and Hurt Board during the Seven Years War (1756–63)
- 2 Royal Navy Surgeons, 1793–1815: A Collective Biography
- 3 Surgery in the Royal Navy during the Republican and Napoleonic Wars (1793–1815)
- 4 The Sick and Hurt Board: Fit for Purpose?
- 5 An ‘Important and Truly National Subject’: The West Africa Service and the Health of the Royal Navy in the Mid Nineteenth Century
- 6 Mortality and Migration: A Survey 128
- 7 Slave Purchasing Strategies and Shipboard Mortality: Day-to-Day Evidence from the Dutch African Trade, 1751–1797
- 8 Ships, Families and Surgeons: Migrant Voyages to Australia in the Age of Sail
- 9 Medical Encounters on the Kala Pani: Regulation and Resistance in the Passages of Indentured Indian Migrants, 1834–1900
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Health and Medicine at Sea, 1700-1900 , pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009