Networks in Tropical Medicine : Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930.
& DIV & & I & Networks in Tropical Medicine & /I & 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 collabor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Summary: | & DIV & & I & Networks in Tropical Medicine & /I & 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 healt. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804781053 0804781052 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |