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 …

Introduction timely appeal for support for tropical medicine attracted the politically powerful
backing of Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and barely a year …

It is customary to regard 'tropical medicine'as a product of the late nineteenth century,'its
instrument the microscope, its epistemology the germ theory of disease'. The accepted …

In the introduction to his manual of Tropical Diseases, first published in 1 898, the British
physician Patrick Manson (1 844-1 922) acknowledged that the term tropical diseases was' …

First published in 1998. Despite the upsurge of interest in the history of tropical medicine,
international public health and the provision of health care in colonial and post-colonial …

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked
together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth …

The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas,
people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern …

This book examines the consequences of commercial and imperial expansion for British
medicine between roughly 1660 and 1830. It pays particular attention to the development of …

Edward Said's Culture and Imperìalism has reminded us that Europe expansion was not
simply an act of accumulation and acquisition, bu that it was sustained by an" almost …

For many colonial writers and physicians, tropical nature was Purgatory shabbily disguised
as Eden. In Rudyard Kipling's story “William the Conqueror,” a self-possessed …