Record Nr.

UNINA9910463228003321

Autore

Haynes Douglas Melvin

Titolo

Imperial medicine [[electronic resource] ] : Patrick Manson and the conquest of tropical disease / / by Douglas M. Haynes

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8122-0221-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

616.9/883/092

Soggetti

Tropical medicine - Great Britain - History

Physicians - Great Britain

Tropical Medicine - history

Colonialism - history

History, 19th Century

Malaria - history

Tropical Medicine

Biography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Introduction. British Medicine as Imperial Medicine -- 1. The Making of an Imperial Doctor -- 2. Transforming Colonial Knowledge into Imperial Knowledge -- 3. The Rhetoric and Politics of Discovery -- 4. Making Imperial Science British Science -- 5. Domesticating Tropical Medicine -- 6. The Tropical Diseases Research Fund and Specialist Science at the London School of Tropical Medicine -- Epilogue. From White Man's Burden to White Man's Grave -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British medicine. In 1899, at the twilight of his career and

as the British Empire approached its zenith, he founded the London School of Tropical Medicine. For these contributions Manson would later be called the "father of British tropical medicine."In Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease Douglas M. Haynes uses Manson's career to explore the role of British imperialism in the making of Victorian medicine and science. He challenges the categories of "home" and "empire" that have long informed accounts of British medicine and science, revealing a vastly more dynamic, dialectical relationship between the imperial metropole and periphery than has previously been recognized. Manson's decision to launch his career in China was no accident; the empire provided a critical source of career opportunities for a chronically overcrowded profession in Britain. And Manson used the London media's interest in the empire to advance his scientific agenda, including the discovery of the transmission of malaria in 1898, which he portrayed as British science.The empire not only created a demand for practitioners but also enhanced the presence of British medicine throughout the world. Haynes documents how the empire subsidized research science at the London School of Tropical Medicine and elsewhere in Britain in the early twentieth century. By illuminating the historical enmeshment of Victorian medicine and science in Britain's imperial project, Imperial Medicine identifies the present-day privileged distribution of specialist knowledge about disease with the lingering consequences of European imperialism.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137400303321

Titolo

2015 International Conference on Science and Technology (TICST) / / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Piscataway, New Jersey : , : IEEE, , [2015]
©2015

ISBN

1-4673-7670-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Computer science

Cooperating objects (Computer systems)

Electrical engineering