Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885-1960

• Autore: Capocci Mauro
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 pages)
• Altri autori: CozzoliDaniele
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Age of Empire, the Making of the Modern Nation, and the Advancement of Medical Sciences -- The Complexity of Empires and the Making of the Nation -- Tropical Medicine, Medicine in the Tropics, Medicine, and Colonialism -- Medicine, Empire, the Nation -- Medicine, Empire, and the Nation: The Essays -- References -- Part I: Tropical Medicine in the Evolution and the Collapse of Empires -- Chapter 2: Tropical Medicine and the "Consolidation" of the Portuguese Empire (1902-1966) -- Tropical Medicine: Fulfilling Two Agendas -- The Foundation of the Lisbon School of Tropical Medicine Under Royal Rule -- The Agenda of Scientific Missions in Portuguese Africa: Between Liberalism and Dictatorship -- Cambournac at WHO and the Route to Decolonization Under Salazar's Regime -- Some Final Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Dutch Colonial Medicine and Empire Building in the Tropics: The Cases of Leprosy and Drug Use in the Dutch East and West Indies Compared -- Introduction -- Suriname -- Dutch East Indies -- The 'Imperial Danger': Leprosy in the Global Context -- Leprosy in Suriname -- Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies -- Orientalization of Drug Use -- Drug Regulations in the Dutch East Indies -- Drug Regulations in Suriname -- Epilogue: Drug Use and the Colonial Cultural Archive -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Tropical Medical Institutions and Imperial, Commercial, and Political Expansion -- Chapter 4: The Business of Tropical Medicine: Connections Between Anti-malarial Campaigns in Sierra Leone, 1899-1901, and Jamaica, 1908 -- The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine as Hub -- Freetown, 1899-1901 -- Jamaica -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Leishmaniases in Brazil: A Historical Approach. ; Tropical Medicine Within the Context of the Cold War -- Leishmaniases: State of Art -- Final Considerations -- References -- Part III: Circulation of People, Object, and Ideas -- Chapter 6: Tropical Medicine, the Nation, and the Colonial Expansion in the View of Italian Royal Navy Physicians at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Colonialism, Emigration, Biomedicine, and the Making of the Italian Nation -- The Navy -- Navy Physicians and Emigration -- Navy Physicians as Observers -- Indigenous Knowledge -- Navy Doctors as Promoters of Colonial Expansion -- Emigration and Colonialism -- References -- Chapter 7: From Universal Rats to Future Jungle Foci: Actors and Places of Plague in Brazil (1899-1940s) -- Brazil in a Global War Against the Rat -- The Invention of Sylvatic Plague -- Jungle Plague: Sylvatic Plague Transformed in Brazil -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Anti-Fascist Medicine and the International Peace Campaign Against Urban Raids in Spain and China, 1936-1939 -- Introduction -- The RUP/IPC Facing Fascism and Imperialism -- The Spanish and Chinese Campaigns -- The International Conference Against Air Raids -- Conclusions -- References -- Archives -- Other Sources -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885-1960
• ISBN: 3-031-38805-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838271503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History Series