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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Senior, Emily (1978-....)
Titre(s) : The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834 [Texte imprimé] : slavery, disease and colonial modernity / Emily Senior
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in romanticism ; 119
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in romanticism
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-276) and index
"During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave
of Europeans'. At the apex of British colonialism in the region between 1764 and 1834,
the rapid spread of disease amongst colonist, enslaved and indigenous populations
made the Caribbean notorious as one of the deadliest places on earth. Drawing on historical
accounts from physicians, surgeons and travellers alongside literary works, Emily
Senior traces the cultural impact of such widespread disease and death during the
Romantic age of exploration and medical and scientific discovery. Focusing on new
fields of knowledge such as dermatology, medical geography and anatomy, Senior shows
how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas,
and that the Caribbean as the hub of empire played a significant role in the changing
disciplines and literary forms associated with the transition to modernity"
Sujet(s) : Médecine -- Antilles -- Histoire
Médecine -- Dans la littérature
Maladies infectieuses -- Antilles -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108416818. - ISBN 1108416810. - ISBN 9781108404198. - ISBN 1108404197
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45472670m
Notice n° :
FRBNF45472670
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Communicating disease : literature and medicine in the Atlantic World ; Part I.
Health, Geography and Aesthetics. 'What new forms of death' : the poetics of disease
and cure ; The diagnostics of description : medical topography and the colonial picturesque
; Part II. Colonial Bodies. Skin, textuality and colonial feeling ; 'A Seasoned Creole'
and 'a Citizen of the World' : white West Indians and Atlantic medical knowledge
; Part III. Revolution and Abolition. The 'intimate union of medicine and magic' :
Obeah, revolution and colonial modernity ; Afterword : colonial modernities and after
abolition.
