Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930 Pdf

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Release: 2012-02-29
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0804778132
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Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book shows that this transnational collaboration in a context of European colonialism, scientific discovery, and internationalism shaped the character of the new medical specialty. Even in an era of intense competition among European states, practitioners of tropical medicine created a transnational scientific community through which they influenced each other and the health care that was introduced to the tropical world. One of the most important developments in the shaping of tropical medicine as a specialty was the major sleeping sickness epidemic that spread across sub-Saharan Africa at the turn of the century. The book describes how scientists and doctors collaborated across borders to control, contain, and find a treatment for the disease. It demonstrates that these medic Download Networks in Tropical Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development Pdf

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Release: 2008-05-22
Publisher: ASM Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1555816711
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Some of the worst tropical diseases in the world have too long been ignored. Parasitic and bacterial diseases such as hookworm, snail fever, river blindness, guinea worm, elephantiasis, sleeping sickness, and leprosy are the most common infections of third-world populations. These neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent one of the most important reasons why populations living in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America remain caught in a vicious cycle of poverty, stigma, and despair.


With a lifetime devoted to the subject of tropical diseases, the well-known expert Dr. Peter Hotez provides a comprehensive view of these forgotten diseases. Written in accessible, straightforward language, Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases thoroughly explains the most significant NTDs, including social and economic aspects, public health concerns, and preventative measures.



This volume will raise public awareness about these forgotten diseases and their enormous phy Download Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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