Doctors at Sea Emigrant Voyages to Colonial Australia
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Full Title

Doctors at Sea Emigrant Voyages to Colonial Australia
Author(s)

R. Haines
Edition
ISBN

9780230248427, 9781403986856, 9781349541096
Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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 after arrival. The book shows, in graphic detail, just why a few notorious voyages suffered tragic loss of life in the absence of competent supervision. Its emphasis, however, is on demonstrating the extent to which the professionalism of the majority of surgeon superintendents, even on ships where childhood epidemics raged, led to the extraordinary saving of life on the Australian route in the Victorian era.

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