Networks in tropical medicine [electronic resource] : internationalism, colonialism, and the rise of a medical specialty, 1890-1930 / Deborah J. Neill.

9780804781053 (ebook) :

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2012.

1 online resource (xiii, 292 p.) : ill.

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This is an exploration of 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. It shows that this transnational collaboration in a context of European colonialism, scientific discovery, and internationalism shaped the character of a 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 health care that was introduced to the tropical world.

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September 25, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.