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Imperial medicine : Patrick Manson and the conquest of tropical disease /

"Imperial Medicine ... effectively situates Manson in two very different professional and political locations--China and London--and makes informative connections between the filarial and malarial stages of his career."--Victorian Studies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haynes, Douglas Melvin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Introduction. British Medicine as Imperial Medicine
  • 1. The Making of an Imperial Doctor
  • 2. Transforming Colonial Knowledge into Imperial Knowledge
  • 3. The Rhetoric and Politics of Discovery
  • 4. Making Imperial Science British Science
  • 5. Domesticating Tropical Medicine
  • 6. The Tropical Diseases Research Fund and Specialist Science at the London School of Tropical Medicine
  • Epilogue. From White Man's Burden to White Man's Grave
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.