Graham, A;
(2021)
The Global Politics of Medical Reform in Britain and Jamaica in the Early Nineteenth Century.
Social History of Medicine
, 34
(3)
pp. 766-787.
10.1093/shm/hkaa035.
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Abstract
Between 1826 and 1843 the medical practitioners of Jamaica engaged in a long and fraught campaign to create a College of Physicians and Surgeons. This campaign linked the island with the global processes of medical and political reform, especially in Britain, and numerous studies have revealed the political barriers that faced efforts to reshape medical practices in this period. Yet the metropole was also in a continuous dialogue with its colonial periphery. Existing work has looked at what this dialogue meant for the circulation of medical theories and practices, but equally important was the transmission of medical institutions, which provided structures for their development and application. The campaign in Jamaica offers an important case study of the complex process by which medical institutions spread in this period and reveals both the imperial aspects of medical and social reform in Jamaica and the colonial aspects of medical reform in Britain.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Global Politics of Medical Reform in Britain and Jamaica in the Early Nineteenth Century |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/shm/hkaa035 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa035 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Jamaica, politics, reform, medical, Britain |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096617 |
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