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Auteur(s) : Hickman, Clare
Titre(s) : The doctor's garden [Texte imprimé] : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman
Publication : New Haven ; London : Yale university press, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-238 p. -[32] p. de pl.) : ill. en coul. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 219-231. Index
"A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical
practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation. As Britain
grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's
public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic
enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners
used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting
and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens
across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the
changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the
ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider
framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian
Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment
to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration."
Sujet(s) : Plantes médicinales -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Jardins à l'anglaise -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Horticulture -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
633.880 94109 (23e éd.) = Plantes médicinales (agriculture) - Îles Britanniques - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300236101. - ISBN 0300236107 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470765194
Notice n° :
FRBNF47076519
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Quick Guide to the Key Medical Practitioners and Their Gardens -- ; Introduction.
Illuminating the Doctor's Garden -- ; Educating the Senses : The Botanic Garden as
a Teaching and Research Center -- ; Creating a Perpetual Spring : Tracing Private
Botanic Collectors and Their Networks -- ; For "Curiosity and Instruction" : Visiting
the Botanic Garden -- ; "Hints or Directions" : Reading the Doctor's Garden -- ; For
Dulce and Utile : The Garden as Both Ornament and Farm -- ; This "Terrestrial Elysium"
: Sociability and the Garden -- ; Epilogue. The Stories We Tell : Bridging the Gap
between Research and Practice.
