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Hunter's tropical medicine
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ISBN: 0721686192 Year: 1984 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa Saunders

Warm climates and Western medicine : the emergence of tropical medicine, 1500-1900
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ISBN: 9051839235 900441844X 9051839111 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amsterdam Rodopi

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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.

Travel medicine: a handbook for practitioners
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ISBN: 0443011648 Year: 1975 Publisher: Edinburgh Livingstone


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The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
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ISBN: 9780226114521 9780226114668 022611466X 022611452X Year: 2014 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was in essence naval medicine, taught almost exclusively in a system of provincial medical schools built by the navy in the port cities of Brest, Rochefort-sur-Mer, Toulon, and Bordeaux. Michael A. Osborne draws out this separate species of French medicine by examining the histories of these schools and other institutions in the regional and municipal contexts of port life. Each site was imbued with its own distinct sensibilities regarding diet, hygiene, ethnicity, and race, all of which shaped medical knowledge and practice in complex and heretofore unrecognized ways. Osborne argues that physicians formulated localized concepts of diseases according to specific climatic and meteorological conditions, and assessed, diagnosed, and treated patients according to their ethnic and cultural origins. He also demonstrates that regions, more so than a coherent nation, built the empire and specific medical concepts and practices. Thus, by considering tropical medicine's distinctive history, Osborne brings to light a more comprehensive and nuanced view of French medicine, medical geography, and race theory, all the while acknowledging the navy's crucial role in combating illness and investigating the racial dimensions of health.

Bid the sickness cease: disease in the history of Black Africa
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ISBN: 0719539862 Year: 1983 Publisher: London

Geographic medicine for the practitioner : algorithms in the diagnosis and management of exotic diseases
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ISBN: 0226873862 9780226873862 Year: 1978 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press

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"The many diseases that are endemic in most of the developing nations of the world (and that may also affect travelers to these regions) are, at world levels, the most important sources of morbidity that affect the entire human race. The change in morbidity patterns in the more developed nations should not be permitted to blind the more affluent countries to the implications of this simple statement. Thus, direct and useful guides are needed to assure efficient and economical diagnosis and treatment of those infections that are endemic to the less affluent two-thirds of the earth. "The algorithms in this book have been developed by Drs. Warren and Mahmoud, as the result of a systematic effort to produce such guides. The book is presented as another in the series "Studies in Infectious Disease Research" and is a most welcome addition, certain to supply a major and hitherto inadequately fulfilled need."--The Foreword, by Edward H. Kass, M.D., Ph. D.


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Water, wastes and health in hot climates
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ISBN: 0471994103 9780471994107 Year: 1977 Publisher: London : Wiley,

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This book is a multi-disciplinary approach to the problems associated with water and wastes in hot climates, particularly those of the tropical developing countries. There are contributions from engineers, experts in medical hygiene, zoologists, economists, geographers and behavioural scientists. Solutions for these types of problems in hot climates have generally been modelled on practices adopted in industrialized countries with temperate climates which are invariably inappropriate. The book provides a basis for the interdisciplinary activities required to make the best use of the resources available in sanitary engineering in the Third World.

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Sanitary engineering --- Tropical medicine. --- Tropical conditions. --- -Engineering, Sanitary --- Environmental health engineering --- Engineering --- Public health --- Buildings --- Sanitation --- Tropical conditions --- Environmental engineering --- -Tropical conditions --- Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering --- Water supply, treatment, consumption and use --- Urban hygiene. Wastes. Refuse. Rubbish. Garbage. Collection and disposal of town wastes --- 628.4 Urban hygiene. Wastes. Refuse. Rubbish. Garbage. Collection and disposal of town wastes --- 628.1 Water supply, treatment, consumption and use --- 628 Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering --- Tropical medicine --- 628.1 --- 628.2 --- 628.3 --- 628.4 --- 628 --- 628.3 Sewage. Surface and foul water. Properties and treatment. Sewage works --- Sewage. Surface and foul water. Properties and treatment. Sewage works --- 628.2 Urban water removal. Town drainage, sewerage --- Urban water removal. Town drainage, sewerage --- Diseases, Tropical --- Hygiene, Tropical --- Medicine --- Public health, Tropical --- Sanitation, Tropical --- Tropical diseases --- Medical climatology --- Engineering, Sanitary --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Basic Sciences. Agriculture -- Tropical Agriculture --- ALLW. --- Eau --- Traitement des dÉchets --- Pays en voie de développement --- Ressources naturelles


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American journal of epidemiology
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ISSN: 00029262 14766256 Year: 1965 Publisher: Baltimore, Md

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The American Journal of Epidemiology is the oldest and one of the premier epidemiologic journals devoted to the publication of empirical research findings, opinion pieces, and methodological developments in the field of epidemiologic research. It is a peer-reviewed journal aimed at both fellow epidemiologists and those who use epidemiologic data, including public health workers and clinicians.

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Epidemiology --- General parasitology --- Public health --- Public Health --- Epidémiologie --- Santé publique --- Periodicals --- periodicals --- Périodiques --- Epidemiology. --- Epidemiologic Methods. --- Public Health. --- Public health. --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Disease --- epidemiology --- Environmental Sciences --- Health Sciences --- Life Sciences --- Social Sciences --- Occupational Hazards & Health --- General and Others --- Immunology --- Demographic Studies --- Sociology --- Epidémiologie --- Santé publique --- Périodiques --- EJSANTE EPUB-ALPHA-A EPUB-PER-FT MDEPIDEM MDPUBLIC OXFUNIPRE-E --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Epidemiologic Method --- Epidemiological Methods --- Methods, Epidemiologic --- Epidemiological Method --- Method, Epidemiologic --- Method, Epidemiological --- Methods, Epidemiological --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- methods --- MDEPIDEM MDPUBLIC --- periodicals. --- Community Health --- Health, Community --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Diseases --- Social Epidemiology --- Epidemiologies, Social --- Epidemiology, Social --- Social Epidemiologies --- Communicable diseases --- epidemiology. --- public health. --- human health and safety --- community health --- comorbidity --- disease eradication --- environmental health --- health policy --- health promotion --- rural health --- adulterated foods --- Clean Air Act --- diet-related diseases --- dietary recommendations --- endemic diseases --- evidence-based practice --- food enrichment --- food fraud --- health behavior --- health hazards --- health services --- health surveys --- human health --- hygiene --- microbiological guidelines --- National Cholesterol Education Program --- Nutrition Landscape Information System --- nutrition policy --- One Health initiative --- public health engineering --- risk communication --- travelers diarrhea --- USDA Branded Food Products Database --- vaccination --- water quality --- epizootiology --- Health and Pathology --- burden of disease --- cross contamination --- disease incidence --- disease occurrence --- disease outbreaks --- disease prevalence --- disease reservoirs --- disease resurgence --- disease severity --- disease transmission --- disease vectors --- epidemiological studies --- familial incidence --- molecular epidemiology --- pathogen survival --- pathogenicity --- seroconversion --- seroprevalence --- tropical diseases --- vector-borne diseases --- vector competence --- vectorial capacity --- biological resistance --- disease and pest management --- disease surveillance --- disease susceptibility --- epizootic diseases --- pathogenesis --- zoonoses --- Communicable diseases. --- Public Health - periodicals --- Epidemiology - periodicals --- Public health - Periodicals --- Epidemiology - Periodicals --- Health and Wellbeing. --- Épidémiologie --- Épidémiologie. --- Santé publique.

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