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.
Table of contents:David ARNOLD: Introduction: Tropical Medicine before Manson. M.N. PEARSON: First Contacts between Indian and European Medical Systems: Goa in the Sixteenth Century. Peter BOOMGAARD: Dutch Medicine in Asia, 1600-1900. Kenneth F. KIPLE and Kriemhild CONEÈ ORNELAS: Race, War and Tropical Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean. Michael A. OSBORNE: Resurrecting Hippocrates: Hygienic Sciences and the French Scientific Expeditions to Egypt, Morea and Algeria. Philip D. CURTIN: Disease and Imperialism. Julyan G. PEARD: Tropical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Case of the 'Escola Tropicalista Bahiana', 1860-1890. Mark HARRISON: A Question of Locality: The Identity of Cholera in British India, 1860-1890. Anne Marie MOULIN: Tropical without the Tropics: The Turning-Point of Pastorian Medicine in North Africa. Michael WORBOYS: Germs, Malaria and the Invention of Mansonian Tropical Medicine: From 'Diseases in the Tropics' to 'Tropical Diseases'. Douglas Melvin HAYNES: Social Status and Imperial Service: Tropical Medicine and the British Medical Profession in the Nineteenth Century. Index.
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.
Table of contents:David ARNOLD: Introduction: Tropical Medicine before Manson. M.N. PEARSON: First Contacts between Indian and European Medical Systems: Goa in the Sixteenth Century. Peter BOOMGAARD: Dutch Medicine in Asia, 1600-1900. Kenneth F. KIPLE and Kriemhild CONEÈ ORNELAS: Race, War and Tropical Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean. Michael A. OSBORNE: Resurrecting Hippocrates: Hygienic Sciences and the French Scientific Expeditions to Egypt, Morea and Algeria. Philip D. CURTIN: Disease and Imperialism. Julyan G. PEARD: Tropical Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: The Case of the 'Escola Tropicalista Bahiana', 1860-1890. Mark HARRISON: A Question of Locality: The Identity of Cholera in British India, 1860-1890. Anne Marie MOULIN: Tropical without the Tropics: The Turning-Point of Pastorian Medicine in North Africa. Michael WORBOYS: Germs, Malaria and the Invention of Mansonian Tropical Medicine: From 'Diseases in the Tropics' to 'Tropical Diseases'. Douglas Melvin HAYNES: Social Status and Imperial Service: Tropical Medicine and the British Medical Profession in the Nineteenth Century. Index.