Warm climates and Western medicine : the emergence of tropical medicine, 1500-1900
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Warm climates and Western medicine : the emergence of tropical medicine, 1500-1900
（The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine）（Clio medica, 35）
Rodopi, 2003, c1996
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
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