Materials and Medicine:
Subtitle: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780719083129
Table of contents: title: Glossary; title: Acknowledgment; title: Introduction; title: 1. Trade and treatment: Medicine in the colonies in the age of commerce; title: 2. War, settlement and medicine in the West Indies; title: 3. Terrains, territories and treatment in the Coromandel; title: 4. Materials and materia medica in India; title: 5. Medical botany in Jamaican plantations; title: 6. Therapeutic trajectories in the age of empire; title: 7. Colonialism and the hinterlands of science; title: Bibliography