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

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"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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Haynes, Douglas Melvin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Manson, Patrick, > Sir, > 1844-1922.
Manson, Patrick, > Sir, > 1844-1922
Tropical medicine > Great Britain > History.
Physicians > Great Britain > Biography.
Tropical medicine.
Tropical Medicine > history
History, 19th Century
Colonialism > history
Malaria > history
Tropical Medicine
Médecine tropicale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine tropicale.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Physicians.
Great Britain.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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