Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885-1960, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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1 Introduction: The Age of Empire, The Making of the Modern Nation and the Advancement of Medical Sciences; Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli- Part I. Tropical Medicine in the Evolution and the Collapse of Empires.- 2. Tropical Medicine and the "Consolidation" of the Portuguese Empire, 1902-1966; Isabel Amaral.- 3. Dutch Colonial Medicine and Empire-building in the Tropics: The Cases of Leprosy and Drug Use in the Dutch East and West Indies; Stephen Snelders.- Part II. Tropical Medical Institutions and Imperial Commercial and Political Expansion.- 4. The Business of Tropical Medicine: Connections between Anti-malarial Campaigns in Sierra Leone, 1899-1901, and Jamaica, 1908; Juanita De Barros.- 5. Leishmaniases in Brazil: A Historical Approach; Jaime Larry Benchimol.- Part III. Circulation of People, Objects and Ideas.- 6. Tropical Medicine, the Nation, and Colonial Expansion in the View of Italian Royal Navy Physicians at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Mauro Capocci and Daniele Cozzoli.- 7. From Universal Rats to Future Jungle Foci: Actors and Places of Plague in Brazil, 1899-1940s; Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva.- 8. Anti-fascist Medicine and the International Peace Campaign against Urban Raids in Spain and China, 1936-1939; Carles Brasó Broggi.