Stories
- Article
Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
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My rainforest upbringing
In the introduction to her serial, research biologist Nataly Allasi Canales charts the influences that led her to passion for preserving the species of the Peruvian Amazon, where she spent her childhood.
Catalogue
- Journals
Tropical diseases bulletin.
- Journals
Tropical diseases bulletin sanitation supplements.
- Archives and manuscripts
Tropical Diseases Hospital: particulars of fees for patients etc [printed pamphlets]
Date: c. 1930Reference: WTI/RST/D/7Part of: Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene- Books
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Tropical diseases; a manual of the diseases of warm climates / by Patrick Manson.
Manson, Patrick, Sir, 1844-1922.Date: 1900- Books
Tropical diseases / Michael Worboys.
Worboys, Michael, 1948-Date: 1993