The emergence of tropical medicine in France /

"The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was in essence naval medicine, taught almost exclus...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Osborne, Michael A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Tropical medicine > France > History > 19th century.
Medicine > Colonies > France > History > 19th century.
Tropical Medicine > history
Médecine tropicale > France > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > France > Colonies > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Medicine > French colonies
Tropical medicine
France
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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