Pratik Chakrabarti

Gebundenes Buch

Materials and medicine

Trade, conquest and therapeutics in the eighteenth century

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780719083129
• ISBN-10: 0719083125
• Artikelnr.: 32095848