Imperial Medicine : Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease.
Title:
Imperial Medicine : Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease.
Author:
Haynes, Douglas M.
ISBN:
9780812202212
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Introduction: British Medicine as Imperial Medicine -- 1: The Making of an Imperial Doctor -- 2: Transforming Colonial Knowledge into Imperial Knowledge: The Isolation of the Mosquito as Intermediary Host of the Filaria Worm -- 3: The Rhetoric and Politics of Discovery -- 4: Making Imperial Science British Science: The Discovery of the Transmission of Malaria -- 5: Domesticating Tropical Medicine: The Formation of the London School of 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.
Abstract:
"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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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