The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain
Hickman, Clare (Welcome Research Fellow in Medical History & Humanities)2022
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalise on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic and private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden.
Main title:
The doctor's garden : medicine, science, and horticulture in Britain / Clare Hickman.
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2022.New Haven : Yale University Press, 2022.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780300236101 (hbk)
Dewey class:
712.0941
Language:
English
Subject:
Gardens -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryGardens -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryMedicinal plants -- Great BritainBotany, Medical -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryBotany, Medical -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryArchitecture and PlanningUnited Kingdom, Great Britain18th century, c 1700 to c 1799European historyHistorySocial & cultural history
BRN:
2578098