Warm climates and western medicine : : the emergence of tropical medicine, 1500-1900 / / edited by David Arnold.
It is generally assumed that tropical medicine only emerged as a medical specialism in the late nineteenth century under the aegis of men like Patrick Manson and Ronald Ross. However, recent research (much of it brought together for the first time in this volume) shows that a distinctive medicine of...
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| Superior document: | The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, GA : : Rodopi,, [1996] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements / David Arnold
- Notes on Contributors / David Arnold
- Introduction: Tropical Medicine before Manson / David Arnold
- First Contacts between Indian and European Medical Systems: Goa in the Sixteenth Century / M. N. Pearson
- Dutch Medicine in Asia, 1600–1900 / Peter Boomgaard
- Race, War and Tropical Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean / Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas
- Resurrecting Hippocrates: Hygienic Sciences and the French Scientific Expeditions to Egypt, Morea and Algeria / Michael A. Osborne
- Disease and Imperialism / Philip D. Curtin
- Tropical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Case of the ‘Escola Tropicalista Bahiana’, 1860–1890 / Julyan G. Peard
- A Question of Locality: The Identity of Cholera in British India, 1860–1890 / Mark Harrison
- Tropical without the Tropics: The Turning-Point of Pastorian Medicine in North Africa / Anne Marie Moulin
- Germs, Malaria and the Invention of Mansonian Tropical Medicine: From ‘Diseases in the Tropics’ to ‘Tropical Diseases’ / Michael Worboys
- Social Status and Imperial Service: Tropical Medicine and the British Medical Profession in the Nineteenth Century / Douglas Melvin Haynes
- Index / David Arnold
- Index / David Arnold.