Ship's Surgeons of the Dutch East India Company (Record no. 65545)
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bruijn, Iris, |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ship's Surgeons of the Dutch East India Company |
| 246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Commerce and the Progress of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Leiden University Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2009 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (388 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | LUP Academic |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The ship's surgeons in the employ of the Dutch East India Company were responsible for the healthcare on board the ships and in the hospitals founded by the Company in a vast geographical area expanding from South Africa to Japan. They were not highly regarded by their contemporaries, who criticised them for being little more than barbers or loblolly boys. The author of this fascinating study paints the true picture of the profession, drawing on her analysis of data for some 3,000 ship's surgeons in the Company's service, and including the recruitment policy of the Company, the career of the surgeons, their geographical origins, their life expectancy, to mention but a few. The results of her analysis, based on many hitherto unpublished sources, show this negative image to be a myth. The surgeons were, as a rule, fairly well educated according to the standards of their time. The tragic fact that they were confronted with diseases unknown in Europe and incurable at the time contributed to the sailors' and the society's dismissive attitude to their skills. |
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| Uncontrolled term | Dutch East India Company |
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| Uncontrolled term | Geschiedenis |
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| Uncontrolled term | History |
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| Uncontrolled term | History Of Amsterdam |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Medicine And Health |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34800/1/354668.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34800">https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34800/1/354668.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34800</a> |
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| Koha item type | E-Book |
| Withdrawn status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Directory of Open Access Books | Directory of Open Access Books | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | E-Book |