The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was in essence naval medicine, taught almost exclusively...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
2014
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| Schlagworte: | Tropical medicine Medicine Medicine - France - Colonies - History - 19th century Electronic books |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (323 p) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Place, Medicine, and the Colonial Situation; One. Emplacements: Medicine, the Navy, and the Enlightenment Heritage; Two. A Medicine and Hygiene of Place; Three. Medical Constructions of Race: Biological Determinism and Anthropological Pluralism; Four. Belligerence, Bombs, and Bordeaux: A New Place for Naval and Colonial Medicine; Five. The Emergence of Colonial Medicine in Marseille; Six. Colonial Medicine at the Paris Faculty of Medicine; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index