Medicine, Law, and the Lash: Militarized Medicine and Corporal Punishment in the Australian Colonies 1788-1850
Journal: Bristol Research (University of Bristol)
Year: 2019

The service of medical practitioners in the early Australian colonies was inextricably bound up with a heavily militarized culture. This article explores the relationships between those medical practitioners, legal punishment, and the British Empire in the first half of the nineteenth century. The service of medical practitioners in the Australian colonies, coming as it did so close on the heels of two generations of war, gives us an important insight into the effects of the Napoleonic wars both