John Farley (Nova Scotia Dalhousie University)

Bilharzia

A History of Imperial Tropical Medicine
Herausgeber: Jones, Colin; Rosenberg, Charles

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Produktbeschreibung

Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780521530606
• ISBN-10: 0521530601
• Artikelnr.: 21511645

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables and figures
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part I. The Imperial Approach (1898-World War II): 2. 1898: a declaration of war
3. 1898: another war, another continent
4. Bilharzia (1850-1918): the Looss controversies
5. The International Health Board
6. Bilharzia: optimism in Egypt (1918-39)
7. Into the 1930s: economics of disease
8. The 1930s: empires in transition
9. Bilharzia: World War II
Part II. A Brief Interlude: Social Medicine: 10. New ideas
11. Bilharzia: pessimism in Egypt (1940-55)
12. Bilharzia: victory in China?
Part III. The Professional Approach (1950-1970s): 13. The new British Empire: finding the experts
14. South Africa (1950-60): social medicine versus scientific research
15. Bilharzia: second to only one
16. Bilharzia (1950-1970s): a strategic change
17. Conclusion: the imperial triad
Notes
Index.