Author: Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299082444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow's classic study in the history of medicine and public health, returns to print in this attractive paperback editon for students, scholars, and practitioners.
Author: Noble David Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521627306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave: smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases literally conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination. The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame of the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization.
Author: Philip D. Curtin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521598354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa.
Author: Edward Henty Smalpage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Author: Douglas M. Haynes
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220221X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British medicine. In 1899, at the twilight of his career and as the British Empire approached its zenith, he founded the London School of Tropical Medicine. For these contributions Manson would later be called the "father of British tropical medicine." In Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease Douglas M. Haynes uses Manson's career to explore the role of British imperialism in the making of Victorian medicine and science. He challenges the categories of "home" and "empire" that have long informed accounts of British medicine and science, revealing a vastly more dynamic, dialectical relationship between the imperial metropole and periphery than has previously been recognized. Manson's decision to launch his career in China was no accident; the empire provided a critical source of career opportunities for a chronically overcrowded profession in Britain. And Manson used the London media's interest in the empire to advance his scientific agenda, including the discovery of the transmission of malaria in 1898, which he portrayed as British science. The empire not only created a demand for practitioners but also enhanced the presence of British medicine throughout the world. Haynes documents how the empire subsidized research science at the London School of Tropical Medicine and elsewhere in Britain in the early twentieth century. By illuminating the historical enmeshment of Victorian medicine and science in Britain's imperial project, Imperial Medicine identifies the present-day privileged distribution of specialist knowledge about disease with the lingering consequences of European imperialism.
Author: David Masters
Publisher:
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Category : Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: David Masters
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Author: Richard Buckley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780850487046
Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Author: Thurman Brooks Rice
Publisher:
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Category : Communicable diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: Eugene Del Mar
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Category : Mental healing
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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