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Health, Medicine, and the Sea : Australian Voyages, C. 1815-60.

ISBN: 9781526130150
ISBN: 1526130157
Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history.

Record details

Formatted Contents Note:	Health, medicine, and the sea: Australian Voyages, c.1815-1860; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Maps and figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Problems of departure; 2. Steaming ships; 3. Geographies of the tropical Atlantic; 4. Such concentrated mischief': scurvy and imprisonment; 5. Trust and authority below the hatches; 6. From emigrants to immigrants: quarantine and the colony; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.