Health, medicine, and the sea : Australian voyages, c.1815–60 / / Katherine Foxhall
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| Autore: |
Foxhall Katherine
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| Titolo: |
Health, medicine, and the sea : Australian voyages, c.1815–60 / / Katherine Foxhall
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2012 |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina: | 994.02 |
| Soggetto topico: | Prisoners - History - 19th century |
| Prisoners - Health and hygiene | |
| Convict ships - Health aspects | |
| Prisoners - Transportation - Medical care - History - 19th century | |
| Penal transportation - Australia - History - 19th century | |
| Medicine, Naval - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Health, medicine, and the sea |
| ISBN: | 1-5261-3015-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910480112603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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