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"Networks in Tropical Medicine" explores how European doctors and
scientists worked together across borders to establish the new
field of tropical medicine in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. The book shows that this transnational
collaboration in a context of European colonialism, scientific
discovery, and internationalism shaped the character of the new
medical specialty. Even in an era of intense competition among
European states, practitioners of tropical medicine created a
transnational scientific community through which they influenced
each other and the health care that was introduced to the tropical
world. One of the most important developments in the shaping of
tropical medicine as a specialty was the major sleeping sickness
epidemic that spread across sub-Saharan Africa at the turn of the
century. The book describes how scientists and doctors collaborated
across borders to control, contain, and find a treatment for the
disease. It demonstrates that these medical specialists' shared
notions of "Europeanness," rooted in common beliefs about
scientific, technological, and racial superiority, led them to
establish a colonial medical practice in Africa that sometimes
oppressed the same people it was created to help.
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