Book Review – ‘Poxed & Scurvied: The story of sickness and health at sea’ by Kevin Brown

Abstract

Kevin Brown’s book is the latest, and most ambitious, example of the growing interest in maritime disease and medicine. Its purpose, as demonstrated in the sub-title – forget the ‘sexed up’ references to pox and scurvy – is to tell ‘the Story of Sickness and Health at Sea.’ Inevitably, the need to cover a period that ranges from the transportation of plague-carrying rats in the fourteenth century to the work of the SS Uganda as a hospital ship during the Falklands, presents a formidable challenge. How does one manage such an enormous historical panorama?…

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Filed under: Late Middle Ages | Early Modern | Eighteenth Century | Nineteenth Century | Health at Sea | Twentieth Century
Subjects include: Manpower & Life at Sea