Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare.

Author: Pratik Chakrabarti
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 12/31/2014
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780719096549
ISBN10: 0719096545
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- History | Modern | 18th Century
- Science | History

About the Author

Pratik Chakrabarti is Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Modern Medicine at the University of Kent