Difference and Disease
豆瓣
Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Suman Seth
简介
Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill again? The widely accepted answer was that the newcomers needed to become 'seasoned to the climate'. Suman Seth explores forms of eighteenth-century medical knowledge, including conceptions of seasoning, showing how geographical location was essential to this knowledge and helped to define relationships between Britain and her far-flung colonies. In this period, debates raged between medical practitioners over whether diseases changed in different climes. Different diseases were deemed characteristic of different races and genders, and medical practitioners were thus deeply involved in contestations over race and the legitimacy of the abolitionist cause. In this innovative and engaging history, Seth offers dramatically new ways to understand the mutual shaping of medicine, race, and empire.
目录
Introduction: Difference and Disease
Difference and the Postcolonial History of Colonial Medicine
Part I Locality
1 ‘The Same Diseases Here as in Europe’？ Health and Locality Before 1700
1.1 A Hippocratic Revival
1.2 The Flexibility of the Hippocratic Tradition
1.3 Local Knowledge and Medical Expertise
2 Changes in the Air: William Hillary and English Medicine in the West Indies, 1720-1760
2.1 A Rational and Mechanical Essay
2.2 Weathering Epidemics
2.3 From Bath to Barbados
2.4 Yellow Fever
2.5 Slavery, Nativity, and the Production of Similarity C nnclnsion
Part II Empire
3 Seasoning Sickness and the Imaginative Geography of the British Empire
3.1 Seasoning on the Periphery
3.2 Seasoning an Empire Conclusion
4 Imperial Medicine and the Putrefactive Paradigm, 1720-1800 112
4.1 Tropical Climates in Metropolitan Medicine 119
4.2 Towards a New Putrescent Medicine 123
4.3 John Pringle: The Putrefactive Turn 129
4.4 Putrefaction in the Periphery 136
4.5 The End of the Putrefactive Paradigm 146
Conclusion 159
Part 111 Race
5 Race-Medicine in the Colonies, 1679-1750 167
Introduction 167
5.1 Race: The Terms of the Debate in the Early Enlightenment 174
5.2 Gender, Medicine, and Climate 179
5.3 Race and Medicine. 1679-1740 188
5.4 A Little Heterodox: John Atkins. Polygenism. and African Diseases 1516
6 Race, Slavery, and Polygenism: Edward Long and
The History of Jamaica 208
6.1 Anti-Abolitionism and The Somerset Case 213
6.2 Slavery and The History of Jamaica 220
6.3 Special Creation and the Problem of Race 228
6.4 Polygenism, Theology, Materialism 237
Conclusion 238
7 Pathologies of Blackness: Race-Medicine, Slavery, and Abolitionism 241
7.1 Medicine and Abolitionism 250
7.2 Race, Climate, Disease 260
7.3 Racial Pathologies 265
Conclusion 225
Conclusion: Place, Race, and Empire 277
Locality and Expertise 277
Medicine and the Making of Empire 287