The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834
Emily (Birkbeck College, University of London) Senior
Cambridge University Press, 2018
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. Drawing on a wide range of fictional and non-fictional accounts this book explores the cultural impact of such widespread disease, revealing how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas.
- ISBN-13
- 9781108416818
- ISBN-10
- 1108416810
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2018
- Publication date
- 2018-04-26
- Pages
- 300
- Dimensions
- 160x234x22
- Weight
- 616