Warm Climates and Western Medicine

The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500-1900
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-5183-923-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Arnold, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Umweltmedizin, Arbeitsmedizin, Tropenmedizin, Sportmedizin Reisemedizin, Tropenmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 CONEÈ 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

Über Autor(innen)

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).