The emergence of tropical medicine in France / Michael A. Osborne.

  • Osborne, Michael A.
Date:
2014
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Physical description

312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Contents

Emplacements : medicine, the navy, and the Enlightenment heritage -- A medicine and hygiene of place -- Medical constructions of race : biological determinism and anthropological pluralism -- Belligerence, bombs, and bordeaux : a new place for naval and colonial medicine -- The emergence of colonial medicine in Marseille -- Colonial medicine at the Paris Faculty of Medicine.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-300) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    LA.36
    		Open shelves

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  • 9780226114521
  • 022611452X