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.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2001.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.