02295oam 2200469 450 991048011260332120211005200708.01-5261-3015-7(MiAaPQ)EBC5512442(EXLCZ)99410000000667042320130213h20122012 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierHealth, medicine, and the sea Australian voyages, c.1815–60 /Katherine FoxhallManchester :Manchester University Press,2012.©2012.1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) illustrations, mapsPrint version: 9781784993610 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Problems of departure -- 2. Steaming ships -- Voyage I: Eliza Baldwinson (1832) -- 3. Geographies of the tropical Atlantic -- 4. "Such concentrated mischief": scurvy and imprisonment -- 5. Trust and authority below the hatches -- Voyage II: Henry Wellings (1858) -- 6. From emigrants to immigrants: quarantine and the colony.During the 19th century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, medicine and the sea follows these people on a fascinating journey around half the globe to give a rich account of the creation of lay and professional medical knowledge in an ever-changing maritime environment.PrisonersHistory19th centuryPrisonersHealth and hygieneConvict shipsHealth aspectsPrisonersTransportationMedical careHistory19th centuryPenal transportationAustraliaHistory19th centuryMedicine, NavalGreat BritainHistory19th centuryPrisonersHistoryPrisonersHealth and hygiene.Convict shipsHealth aspects.PrisonersTransportationMedical careHistoryPenal transportationHistoryMedicine, NavalHistory994.02Foxhall Katherine969541BOOK9910480112603321Health, medicine, and the sea2446562UNINA