Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire by Suman Seth

Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Global Health Histories

Suman Seth

336 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if they recovered - did they never become so ill agai...

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