{"product_id":"scurvy-the-disease-of-discovery-9780691147826","title":"Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jonathan Lamb\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this compelling and disturbing book, Lamb shows how scurvy, the most incommunicable of diseases, was tangled up with the production of new kinds of speaking and writing, from confession to romance, and new kinds of knowledge, aboard ship and in the penal colony. This is an achievement of scholarship that will be indispensable for future studies of travel, exploration, and their many fictions.\"\u003cb\u003e--Simon Schaffer, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eLeviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This excellent book captures and analyzes the enigma of scurvy, not as therapy-not-discovered, but as almost unknowable experience. Lamb magically transforms one of the most tired subjects in medical and maritime history and historiography into something conceptually and historically rich and fresh.\"\u003cb\u003e--Alison Bashford, author of \u003ci\u003eImperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism, and Public Health\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderful book--powerfully argued and richly written. \u003ci\u003eScurvy\u003c\/i\u003e will be important not just to literary critics of the eighteenth century, but to critics and historians of all periods and nations interested in the ways that diseases of mind and body have shaped our self-narratives. I read it with a mixture of exquisite pleasure and fascinated horror.\"\u003cb\u003e--Cynthia Wall, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45268589871255,"sku":"9780691147826","price":2588.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780691147826.webp?v=1769236189","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/scurvy-the-disease-of-discovery-9780691147826","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}