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Author Haynes, Douglas Melvin

Title Imperial medicine : Patrick Manson and the conquest of tropical disease / by Douglas M. Haynes
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Introduction. British Medicine as Imperial Medicine -- 1. The Making of an Imperial Doctor -- 2. Transforming Colonial Knowledge into Imperial Knowledge -- 3. The Rhetoric and Politics of Discovery -- 4. Making Imperial Science British Science -- 5. Domesticating 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-219) and index
Notes In English
Subject Manson, Patrick, Sir, 1844-1922.
SUBJECT Manson, Patrick, Sir, 1844-1922
Manson, Patrick, Sir, 1844-1922
Manson, Patrick, Sir, 1844-1922 fast
Subject Tropical medicine -- Great Britain -- History
Physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
Tropical medicine.
Tropical Medicine -- history
History, 19th Century
Colonialism -- history
Malaria -- history
Tropical Medicine
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Physicians
Tropical medicine
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00068268
ISBN 9780812202212
081220221X