Citrus Before Certainty
Evidence bureaucracy and sailors lives
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Beschreibung
The remedy mattered, but so did the chain of authority capable of placing it aboard every ship.
The cure for scurvy did not travel in a straight line from discovery to adoption. Reports, experiments, competing theories, supply problems, and administrative resistance shaped what sailors actually received at sea. Focusing on the movement of medical knowledge through navies and merchant fleets, this book explores why useful practices could be forgotten, doubted, or implemented inconsistently. It connects changing ideas about disease with the practical realities of provisioning and preservation. The story reveals how institutions learn, how evidence gains authority, and why thousands of lives can depend on decisions made far from the suffering they address.
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Olivia Bennett
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Themen in »Citrus Before Certainty«
history of clinical trials citrus scurvy prevention naval bureaucracy medicine eighteenth century nutrition medical evidence adoption ship provisioning history