| Bib ID |
3623915 |
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Book, Online - Google Books |
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| Description |
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
x, 248 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
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| ISBN |
9781403986856 (hbk.) 1403986851 (hbk.)
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| Summary |
In this engaging tale of movement from one hemisphere to another, we see doctors at work attending to their often odious and demanding duties at sea, in quarantine, and just after arrival. Author from Flinders University, Australia.
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| Full contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments List of Tables 'Some Respectable Body of Men': An Introduction 'May It Be the Last of Our Sorrows': Disease and Death at Sea 'The Obstinately Dirty Character of the People': Origins, Children, and Epidemics at Sea 'A Most Efficient Body of Officers': Surgeon Superintendents and their Responsibilities 'His Many Duties and Anxieties': Supervision and Discipline at Sea 'The Mother's Milk Generally Fails Them in about Six Weeks': Infant and Child Health 'The People Suffered Greatly in Consequence': Disease, Weather, and Great Circle Sailing 'The Dr is Supreame Over All on Board Bar the Capton and Officers': Matrons, Constables, and Emigrants 'Firmness and Indulgence, Consideration and Strictness': One Surgeon's Management of Families and Irish Girls 'I Held a Court in the Ward': Medicine and Democracy at Sea 'Set Sail with Fowl Wind and Head Sea': Storms, Routines, and Seasickness 'We Have Lost Several Children but this was Quite Expected': Epidemics and Quarantine Appendix 1: Individual Causes of Death Reported by Surgeons on Voyages to South Australia 1848-1885 Bibliography. |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-228) and index.
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| Subjects |
Immigrants - Diseases - Australia - History - 19th century. | Immigrants - Medical care - Australia - History - 19th century. | British - Australia - History - 19th century. | Ocean travel - History - 19th century. | Medicine, Naval - History - 19th century. | Surgery, Naval - History - 19th century. | Australia - Emigration and immigration - Health aspects. | Great Britain - Emigration and immigration - Health aspects. | Australia - Emigration and immigration - History - 19th century. | Great Britain - Emigration and immigration - History - 19th century.
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