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Warm Climates and Western Medicine
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500-1900
Series: - Clio Medica Online, Volume: 35
- Clio Medica, Volume: 35
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It is generally assumed that tropical medicine only emerged as a medical specialism in the late nineteenth century under the aegis of men like Patrick Manson and Ronald Ross. However, recent research (much of it brought together for the first time in this volume) shows that a distinctive medicine of 'warm climates' came into existence much earlier in areas like the West-Indies, Indonesia and India. Europeans' health needs were one imperative, but this was more than just the medicine of Europe shipped overseas. Contact with non-Western medical ideas and practices was also a stimulus, as was Europe's encounter with unfamiliar environments and peoples.
These essays provide valuable insights into the early history of tropical medicine and from the standpoint of several European powers. They examine the kinds of medicine practised, the responses to local diseases and environments and diseases, the nature of the medical constituencies that developed, and the relationship between the old medicine of 'warm climates' and the emerging tropical medicine of the late nineteenth century. The volume as a whole expands the parameters for the discussion of the evolution of Western medicine and opens up new perspectives on European science and society overseas.
These essays provide valuable insights into the early history of tropical medicine and from the standpoint of several European powers. They examine the kinds of medicine practised, the responses to local diseases and environments and diseases, the nature of the medical constituencies that developed, and the relationship between the old medicine of 'warm climates' and the emerging tropical medicine of the late nineteenth century. The volume as a whole expands the parameters for the discussion of the evolution of Western medicine and opens up new perspectives on European science and society overseas.
David Arnold is Professor of South Asian history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He edited Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies (1988), and is the author of Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (1993).
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Tropical Medicine before Manson
David ARNOLD
First Contacts between Indian and European Medical Systems: Goa in the Sixteenth Century
M.N. PEARSON
Dutch Medicine in Asia, 1600-1900
Peter BOOMGAARD
Race, War and Tropical Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
Kenneth F. KIPLE and Kriemhild CONEÃ ORNELAS
Resurrecting Hippocrates: Hygienic Sciences and the French Scientific Expeditions to Egypt, Morea and Algeria
Michael A. OSBORNE
Disease and Imperialism
Philip D. CURTIN
Tropical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Case of the 'Escola Tropicalista Bahiana', 1860-1890
Julyan G. PEARD
A Question of Locality: The Identity of Cholera in British India, 1860-1890
Mark HARRISON
Tropical without the Tropics: The Turning-Point of Pastorian Medicine in North Africa
Anne Marie MOULIN
Germs, Malaria and the Invention of Mansonian Tropical Medicine: From 'Diseases in the Tropics' to 'Tropical Diseases'
Michael WORBOYS
Social Status and Imperial Service: Tropical Medicine and the British Medical Profession in the Nineteenth Century
Douglas Melvin HAYNES
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Tropical Medicine before Manson
David ARNOLD
First Contacts between Indian and European Medical Systems: Goa in the Sixteenth Century
M.N. PEARSON
Dutch Medicine in Asia, 1600-1900
Peter BOOMGAARD
Race, War and Tropical Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
Kenneth F. KIPLE and Kriemhild CONEÃ ORNELAS
Resurrecting Hippocrates: Hygienic Sciences and the French Scientific Expeditions to Egypt, Morea and Algeria
Michael A. OSBORNE
Disease and Imperialism
Philip D. CURTIN
Tropical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Case of the 'Escola Tropicalista Bahiana', 1860-1890
Julyan G. PEARD
A Question of Locality: The Identity of Cholera in British India, 1860-1890
Mark HARRISON
Tropical without the Tropics: The Turning-Point of Pastorian Medicine in North Africa
Anne Marie MOULIN
Germs, Malaria and the Invention of Mansonian Tropical Medicine: From 'Diseases in the Tropics' to 'Tropical Diseases'
Michael WORBOYS
Social Status and Imperial Service: Tropical Medicine and the British Medical Profession in the Nineteenth Century
Douglas Melvin HAYNES
Index