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Title Networks in tropical medicine [electronic resource] : internationalism, colonialism, and the rise of a medical specialty, 1890-1930 / Deborah J. Neill.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Description xiii, 292 p. : ill. map, ports.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Building networks in tropical medicine -- Creating the cadre : teachers, students, and the culture of tropical medicine -- From training to practice : medical experts and public health in Duala and Brazzaville -- Contagions and camps : the sleeping sickness campaigns, 1900-1910 -- Sleeping sickness campaigns in German Cameroon and French Equatorial Africa -- Paul Ehrlich's colonial connections : sleeping sickness drug therapy research, 1903-1914 -- A legacy of embitterment : World War I and its impact on transnational tropical medicine.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Tropical medicine -- Europe -- Colonies -- History.
Tropical medicine -- Africa -- International cooperation -- History.
African trypanosomiasis -- Prevention -- History.
Public health -- Europe -- Colonies -- History.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History.
Germany -- Colonies -- Africa -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Neill, Deborah Joy.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780804778138 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804781053 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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