Bilharzia
A History of Imperial Tropical Medicine
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 11 December 2003
- ISBN 9780521530606
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 229x156x23 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.
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The advent of tropical medicine was a direct consequence of European and American imperialism, when military personnel, colonial administrators, businessmen, and settlers encountered a new set of diseases endemic to the tropics. Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations in Britain, the British colonies, the United States, Central and South America, South Africa, China, and the World Health Organization faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis. Bilharzia is caused by a species of blood vessel-inhabiting parasitic worms and today afflicts over 200 million people in seventy-four countries. John Farley demonstrates that British and American imperial policies and attitudes largely determined the nature of tropical medicine. Western medical practitioners defined the type of medical system that was imposed on the indigenous populations; they dictated which diseases were important and worthy of study, which diseases were to be controlled, and which control methods were to be used.
"...ought to be read, not just by historians and doctors as the blurb suggests, but also by those concerned with the future of populations and the planet." Anne Hardy, Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of Contents:
List of tables and figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Imperial Approach (1898-World War II): 2. 1898: a declaration of war; 3. 1898: another war, another continent; 4. Bilharzia (1850-1918): the Looss controversies; 5. The International Health Board; 6. Bilharzia: optimism in Egypt (1918-39); 7. Into the 1930s: economics of disease; 8. The 1930s: empires in transition; 9. Bilharzia: World War II; Part II. A Brief Interlude: Social Medicine: 10. New ideas; 11. Bilharzia: pessimism in Egypt (1940-55); 12. Bilharzia: victory in China?; Part III. The Professional Approach (1950-1970s): 13. The new British Empire: finding the experts; 14. South Africa (1950-60): social medicine versus scientific research; 15. Bilharzia: second to only one; 16. Bilharzia (1950-1970s): a strategic change; 17. Conclusion: the imperial triad; Notes; Index.
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