Let me begin by saying that I found this book captivating-partly because it is centered on the
scholarly project I term" the invention of tropical disease," and also because it is set in …

Colonial medicine and tropical medicine have become virtually synonymous in recent years
but, as Julyan Peard reminds us in this timely book, tropical medicine also developed …

Julyan G. Peard's Race, Place and Medicine. The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century
Brazilian Medicine is an intriguing and original work that examines the development of …

One of the remarkable aspects about the growing interest in the history of tropical medicine
of the last ten years has been the relative absence of Latin America from the story. The bulk …

Race, Place, and Medicine examines the impact of a group of nineteenth-century Brazilian
physicians who became known posthumously as the Bahian Tropicalista School of …

Thomas A. Abercrombie's book takes the reader down the deep and dangerous ravines of
the Andean past by way of the high, thin-aired path of refiexive ethnography. In a word, it is …

At the outset, Adelman describes Argentina's eighteenth-century economy in rather bleak
institutional terms befitting its mercantilist character. Late-colonial Buenos Aires produced …

This dissertation is a re-examination of a group of doctors in Brazil in the second half of the
nineteenth century called the Escola Tropicalista Bahiana. It uses new historiographical …

Book Reviews/National Period 551 scholar and paired with a historical document. Almost all
the contributors are Brazilian, most have doctoral degrees and teach history of medicine at …

By analyzing several medical treatises written during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, this chapter discusses the experience that the authors of these texts accumulated …