Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall : colonial medical scientist & moral activist

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Title:

Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall : colonial medical scientist & moral activist / Carey Denholm & Stefan Petrow.

Author/Creator:

Denholm, Carey J., 1951- author.

Publication:

North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing Ltd., 2016.

Physical description:

xvi, 231 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm.

Notes:

"Includes the text of his 1833 shipboard diary."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-224) and index.

Contents:

Part I. Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall -- Part II. Journal of a voyage from Liverpool to Van Diemen's Land in the ship Cabotia, Captn. H. Cummings -- Appendices. 1. Nineteenth-century health issues -- 2. Key events of the Hall family --3. Quotable quotes.

Summary:

"Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall was a thorn in the side of the Establishment of Van Diemens Land. For nearly 50 years after his arrival in 1833 he clashed with doctors, administrators, politicians & the clergy. As a doctor he protected the inmates of the convict system, the Cascades Female Factory & Queens Orphan Asylum from oppression & mistreatment"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781925333633 :

Subjects:

Social reformers -- Tasmania -- Biography.

Physicians -- Tasmania -- Biography.

Surgeons -- Tasmania -- Biography.

Public health -- Tasmania -- History -- 19th century.

Convicts -- Health and hygiene -- Tasmania.

Ocean travel -- Diaries.

Catholics -- Tasmania -- Biography.

Tasmania -- History -- 19th century.

Tasmania -- Biography.

Tasmania -- Genealogy.

Diaries.

Hall, E. S. (Edward Swarbreck)

Hall, E. S. (Edward Swarbreck) -- Diaries.

Hall family.

Hall (Family : Hall, E. S. (Edward Swarbreck))

Leventhorpe (Battery Point, Tas.)

Cabotia (Ship)

Other Authors/Creators:

Petrow, Stefan, author.

Record ID:

SD_ILS:1213406

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Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall was a thorn in the side of the Establishment of Van Diemen's Land. For nearly fifty years after his arrival in 1833 he clashed with doctors, administrators, politicians and the clergy. As a doctor he protected the inmates of the convict system, the Cascades Female Factory and the Queen's Orphan Asylum from oppression and mistreatment. He agitated for the protection of the public from infectious diseases and their vaccination against smallpox, and he defended Catholics and Catholicism from sectarian attack by Protestant critics. But he was also a pioneer epidemiologist of international repute, a perceptive shipboard diarist and a devoted father and husband. This book resurrects the many-sided life of a colonial doctor who, with great moral courage and passion, renounced the pursuit of private gain and strove tirelessly for the benefit of the sick and powerless.