Networks in tropical medicine : internationalism, colonialism, and the rise of a medical specialty, 1890-1930 / Deborah J. Neill.

  • Neill, Deborah Joy.
Date:
[2012]
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Publication/Creation

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]

Physical description

xiii, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    LB.1.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 9780804778138
  • 0804778132