Imperial Medicine
Subtitle: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780812235982
Subjects: History Of Medicine; World history; Sir,; History: World; Medical; Biography / Autobiography; Physicians; China; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Manson, Patrick,; Medical - General; History / Great Britain; Tropical Medicine; 1844-1922; Biography; Great Britain; History
First sentence: AT first sight, the village of Takow on the island of Taiwan (or Formosa, as it was then known) appears to be an unlikely place for Patrick Manson to have launched his career in medicine.