Networks in tropical medicine
Subtitle: internationalism, colonialism, and the rise of a medical specialty, 1890-1930
By: Deborah J. Neill
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780804778138
Subjects: African trypanosomiasis; International cooperation; Tropical medicine; Public health; Colonies; Prevention; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Building networks in tropical medicine; title: Creating the cadre : teachers, students, and the culture of tropical medicine; title: From training to practice : medical experts and public health in Duala and Brazzaville; title: Contagions and camps : the sleeping sickness campaigns, 1900-1910; title: Sleeping sickness campaigns in German Cameroon and French Equatorial Africa; title: Paul Ehrlich's colonial connections : sleeping sickness drug therapy research, 1903-1914; title: A legacy of embitterment : World War I and its impact on transnational tropical medicine.