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Author:   R. Haines
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2005
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349541096

ISBN 10:   1349541095
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   22 November 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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'Though the focus might seem narrow, this is an illuminating work of history. It contains within it glimpses and echoes of lives long-forgotten that speak across time with great power.' - Sydney Morning Herald 'Robin Haines' story is a microcosm of Victorian hierarchy: class, racial and sectarian feeling on the one hand, and on the other the integrity and generosity displayed by paternalism at its most high-minded.' - The Melbourne Age 'Robin Haines's excellent little study of nineteenth-century emigrant voyages to Australia from Britain cogently captures the perils of such expeditions...the book is rich in revealing anecdotes.' - Christopher Lawrence, Times Literary Supplement '...I have realized, through reading Robin Haines's excellent study of oceanic voyages, how little I actually know about what happens in that long interval between ports...This is a slim, beautifully-written volume. One hopes that there is yet more to be gained from such carefully detailed studies.' - Maureen Lux, Medical History

'Though the focus might seem narrow, this is an illuminating work of history. It contains within it glimpses and echoes of lives long-forgotten that speak across time with great power.' - Sydney Morning Herald 'Robin Haines' story is a microcosm of Victorian hierarchy: class, racial and sectarian feeling on the one hand, and on the other the integrity and generosity displayed by paternalism at its most high-minded.' - The Melbourne Age 'Robin Haines's excellent little study of nineteenth-century emigrant voyages to Australia from Britain cogently captures the perils of such expeditions...the book is rich in revealing anecdotes.' - Christopher Lawrence, Times Literary Supplement '...I have realized, through reading Robin Haines's excellent study of oceanic voyages, how little I actually know about what happens in that long interval between ports...This is a slim, beautifully-written volume. One hopes that there is yet more to be gained from such carefully detailed studies.' - Maureen Lux, Medical History

Author Information

ROBIN HAINES is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Social Science, Flinders University, Australia.

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