Title: Materials and medicine :
Authors: Chakrabarti, Pratik.
Date: 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press, ;
Physical description: xi, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24  cm.
Language: English
LC class: R
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Trade and treatment: medicine in the colonies in the Age of Commerce -- War, settlement and medicine in the West Indies -- Terrains, territories and treatment in the Coromandel -- Materials and materia medica in India -- Medical botany in Jamaican plantations -- Therapeutic trajectories in the age of empire -- Colonialism and the hinterlands of science.