ABSTRACT The School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1902 along with the Colonial
Hospital of Lisbon. The Portuguese government recognized the importance of colonising the …

The development of a colonial scientific policy by the Portuguese state in the twentieth
century is investigated by studying the Junta de Investigações do Ultramar. Directly …

This study of Portuguese colonial medicine as a social institution reveals it to have had
effects that were far from beneficial. Medicine was a powerful tool for social control in the …

The emergence of the idea of tropical disease is part of the legacy of European empire-
building in places such as Brazil. Early European witnesses in the tropics believed those …

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

From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential
features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Tropical meicine emerged as a scientific specialty around the turn of the century when it
became a recognized field of teaching, research and professional practice. 1 As a distinct …