Health and Medicine at Sea, 1700-1900

by Haycock, David Boyd; Archer, Sally

• ISBN13: 9781843835226
• ISBN10: 1843835223
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-19
• Publisher: Boydell Pr

Summary

Maritime medicine together with its links to the development of empire is a burgeoning area of historical interest and enquiry. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the history of health and medicine in maritime and imperial contexts in a key period, reflecting the growing professionalization of medicine at sea from the establishment of the Sick and Hurt Board to the end of the Victorian era. The chapters, written by leading experts in the field, are grouped around two central themes: Royal Naval medical policy, administration and practice; and health and mortality relating to the migration of peoples across the globe, including slavery, emigration and indentured migration. The book will be of interest to a wide range of historians particularly those interested in maritime history, the history of medicine, and the history of colonialism and imperialism. David Boyd Haycock was Curator of Seventeenth-Century Imperial and Maritime History at the National Maritime Museum, 2007-09, and has held research fellowships at the University of Oxford, the University of California, Los Angeles and the London School of Economcs. He is author of William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth Century England, which is published by Boydell and Brewer. Sally Archer is at the National Maritime Museum.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction: Health, Medicine and the Maritime World: A History of Two Centuries	p. 1
"The Intention is Certain Noble': The Western Squadron, Medical Trials, and the Sick and Hurt Board during the Seven Years War (1756-63)	p. 19
Royal Navy Surgeons, 1793-1815: A Collective Biography	p. 38
Surgery in the Royal Navy during the Republican and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815)	p. 63
The Sick and Hurt Board: Fit for Purpose?	p. 90
An 'Important and Truly National Subject': The West Africa Service and the Health of the Royal Navy in the Mid Nineteenth Century	p. 108
Mortaliry and Migration: A Survey	p. 128
Slave Purchasing Strategies and Shipboard Mortality: Day-to-Day Evidence from the Dutch African Trade, 1751-1797	p. 143
Ships, Families and Surgeons: Migrant Voyages to Australia in the Age of Sail	p. 172
Medical Encounters on the Kala Pani: Regulation and Resistance in the Passages of Indentured Indian Migrants, 1834-1900	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 221
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