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Bilharzia - A History of Imperial Tropical Medicine (Hardcover, New)
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Bilharzia - A History of Imperial Tropical Medicine (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
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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.
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