Difference and disease : medicine, race, and the eighteenth-century British Empire / Suman Seth.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

xv, 324 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-317) and index.

"The same diseases here as in Europe"? : health and locality before 1700 -- Changes in the air : William Hillary & English medicine in the West Indies, 1720-1760 -- Seasoning sickness and the imaginative geography of the British empire -- Imperial medicine and the putrefactive paradigm, 1720-1800 -- Race-medicine in the colonies, 1679-1750 -- Race, slavery, and polygenism : Edward Long and the history of Jamaica -- Pathologies of blackness : race-medicine, slavery, and abolitionism.