Globe-trotting medicine chests: Tracing geographies of collecting and pharmaceuticals

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-384

  Hill, Jude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biography; Collecting; Empire; Material culture; Medicine; Pharmaceuticals

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MATERIAL CULTURE; MEDICINE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SOCIAL HISTORY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 33745312125     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360600715029     Document Type: Article

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