Health, Medicine, and the Sea

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"Health, Medicine and the Sea is a triumph".
Alison Bashford, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 14, Number 2

"A fascinating history, providing a perceptive analysis ... 'Health, Medicine and the Sea' has contributed valuably to both the history of medicine and the historiography of global connection"
Alexander Cameron-Smith, Social History of Medicine Vol. 26, No. 3

This is an excellent and persuasive work, marrying the histories of medicine, penal transportation, and colonialism with maritime geography.

Using such a fascinating source, as well as voyage narratives, Foxhall successfully dismisses previous notions that such ships carried 'silent cargos' under the patriarchal watch of the surgeon-superintendents.

'Recently re-released in a welcome paperback edition, Katherine Foxhall's elegant Health, Medicine, and the Sea foregrounds not just maritime mobility, but the ocean itself. Deeply considered, and engagingly written, it immerses the reader in the sensory, affective, spatial and socially stratified environment of life at sea during the peak of sail. Drawn from innumerable hand-written records and personal accounts in Britain, Ireland and Australia, Foxhall's monograph focuses on the complex confluence of maritime movements, oceanic environments and elusive concepts of health...This is an assured and rewarding work; indeed, I had read the first edition twice prior to being invited to review this re-issue. Interspersing its perceptive analyses with individual narratives of passages to Australia, Foxhall has crafted an intimately human account which nevertheless accords the ocean its rightful place in the travails of antipodean colonisation.'
Peter Hobbins, University of Sydney, Journal of Australian Studies Vol 41, No 1 -- .