Unseen Enemy

The English, Disease, and Medicine in Colonial Bengal, 1617 – 1847
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-6135-9
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Europeans in early colonial Bengal fell prey to new diseases that their limited pharmacopeia, based on an imperfect knowledge of physiology, often failed to treat. This book looks at clinical observations and theories by several English doctors, who, with the encouragement of the East India Company, strove to address these ailments. This enthralling story begins with John Woodall, who never voyaged to India but equipped the surgeons’ chests aboard ships sailing there, and ends with James Esdaile’s contentious work at the experimental Mesmeric Hospital he was permitted to set up briefly in Calcutta.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhattacharya, Sudip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Bhattacharya, Sudip
Sudip Bhattacharya lives and works in Calcutta, and this book, like his first (The Strange Case of Lord Pigot, 2013, also published by Cambridge Scholars), focuses on colonial history. An Associate Professor in English at a prestigious college, Sudip is deeply interested in his city’s rich colonial heritage.

Sudip Bhattacharya lives and works in Calcutta, and this book, like his first (The Strange Case of Lord Pigot, 2013, also published by Cambridge Scholars), focuses on colonial history. An Associate Professor in English at a prestigious college, Sudip is deeply interested in his city’s rich colonial heritage.