Warm climates and Western medicine : the emergence of tropical medicine, 1500-1900

Author(s)

• Arnold, David

Bibliographic Information

Warm climates and Western medicine : the emergence of tropical medicine, 1500-1900

edited by David Arnold

（The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine）（Clio medica, 35）

, 1996

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliography and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9789051839111

Description

hese essays provide valuable insights into the early history of tropical medicine and from the standpoint of several European powers. They examine the kinds of medicine practised, the responses to local diseases and environments and diseases, the nature of the medical constituencies that developed, and the relationship between the old medicine of 'warm climates' and the emerging tropical medicine of the late nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

David ARNOLD: Introduction: Tropical Medicine before Manson. M.N. PEARSON: First Contacts between Indian and European Medical Systems: Goa in the Sixteenth Century. Peter BOOMGAARD: Dutch Medicine in Asia, 1600-1900. Kenneth F. KIPLE and Kriemhild CONEE ORNELAS: Race, War and Tropical Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean. Michael A. OSBORNE: Resurrecting Hippocrates: Hygienic Sciences and the French Scientific Expeditions to Egypt, Morea and Algeria. Philip D. CURTIN: Disease and Imperialism. Julyan G. PEARD: Tropical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Case of the 'Escola Tropicalista Bahiana', 1860-1890. Mark HARRISON: A Question of Locality: The Identity of Cholera in British India, 1860-1890. Anne Marie MOULIN: Tropical without the Tropics: The Turning-Point of Pastorian Medicine in North Africa. Michael WORBOYS: Germs, Malaria and the Invention of Mansonian Tropical Medicine: From 'Diseases in the Tropics' to 'Tropical Diseases'. Douglas Melvin HAYNES: Social Status and Imperial Service: Tropical Medicine and the British Medical Profession in the Nineteenth Century. Index.

Volume

ISBN 9789051839234

Description

These essays provide valuable insights into the early history of tropical medicine and from the standpoint of several European powers. They examine the kinds of medicine practised, the responses to local diseases and environments and diseases, the nature of the medical constituencies that developed, and the relationship between the old medicine of 'warm climates' and the emerging tropical medicine of the late nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 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 CONEE 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

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Details

• NCID: BA28162250
• ISBN:
  • 9051839235
  • 9051839111
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam ; Rodopi
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 240 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00717100
  • BA22416516