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Networks in tropical medicine : internationalism, colonialism, and the rise of a medical specialty, 1890-1930 / Deborah J. Neill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neill, Deborah, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tropical medicine--Europe--Colonies--History.
- Tropical medicine.
- Tropical medicine--Africa--International cooperation--History.
- African trypanosomiasis--Prevention--History.
- African trypanosomiasis.
- Public health--Europe--Colonies--History.
- Public health.
- France--Colonies--Africa--History.
- France.
- Germany--Colonies--Africa--History.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 and early twentieth centuries. The book shows that this transnational collaboration in a context of European colonialism, scientific discovery, and internationalism shaped the character of the new medical specialty. Even in an era of intense competition among European states, practitioners of tropical medicine created a transnational scientific community through which they influenced each other and the health
- Contents:
- Building networks in tropical medicine
- Creating the cadre : teachers, students, and the culture of tropical medicine
- From training to practice : medical experts and public health in Duala and Brazzaville
- Contagions and camps : the sleeping sickness campaigns, 1900-1910
- Sleeping sickness campaigns in German Cameroon and French Equatorial Africa
- Paul Ehrlich's colonial connections : sleeping sickness drug therapy research, 1903-1914
- A legacy of embitterment : World War I and its impact on transnational tropical medicine.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804781053
- 0804781052
- OCLC:
- 769343149
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