Health and Medicine at Sea, 1700-1900

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Edited by David Boyd Haycock, Sally Archer

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: March 2023
Print publication year:: 2009
Online ISBN:: 9781846157325
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846157325

Subjects:: History, Twentieth Century Regional History

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Examines a wide range of aspects of health and medicine in maritime and imperial settings during the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures and Tables
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

List of Contributors
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiii

List of Abbreviations
pp xiv-xiv

Introduction - Health, Medicine and the Maritime World: A History of Two Centuries
pp 1-18

1 - ‘The Intention is Certain Noble’: The Western Squadron, Medical Trials, and the Sick and Hurt Board during the Seven Years War (1756–63)
pp 19-37

2 - Royal Navy Surgeons, 1793–1815: A Collective Biography
pp 38-62

3 - Surgery in the Royal Navy during the Republican and Napoleonic Wars (1793–1815)
pp 63-89

4 - The Sick and Hurt Board: Fit for Purpose?
pp 90-107

5 - An ‘Important and Truly National Subject’: The West Africa Service and the Health of the Royal Navy in the Mid Nineteenth Century
pp 108-127

6 - Mortality and Migration: A Survey 128
pp 128-142

7 - Slave Purchasing Strategies and Shipboard Mortality: Day-to-Day Evidence from the Dutch African Trade, 1751–1797
pp 143-171

8 - Ships, Families and Surgeons: Migrant Voyages to Australia in the Age of Sail
pp 172-194

9 - Medical Encounters on the Kala Pani: Regulation and Resistance in the Passages of Indentured Indian Migrants, 1834–1900
pp 195-212

Bibliography
pp 213-220

Index
pp 221-229

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