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| Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gordon Charles Cook |
| ISBN: | 9780123739919 0123739918 |
| OCLC Number: | 474254641 |
| Description: | xvi, 278 s. : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Early pioneers of 'Medicine in the Tropics'Origins of the formal disciplinePatrick Manson (1844-1922) Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922) Ronald Ross (1857-1932) Carlos Finlay (1833-1915) James Cantlie (1851-1926) George Carmichael Low (1872-1952)David Bruce (1855-1931) The schistosomiasis saga: Theodor Bilharz (1825-1962), Robert Leiper (1881-1969), and the Japanese investigators.Joseph Everett Dutton (1874-1905)The causative agent of leishmaniasis : William Leishman (1865-1926) and Charles Donovan (1863-1951).Leonard Rogers (1868-1962) Aldo Castellani (1877-1971) Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891-1966) Lesser Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943) Andrew Balfour (1873-1931)Some less well documented pioneers 'Backroom' and lay pioneers of the specialityPoliticians and entrepreneursEpilogueAppendix 1: Presidential lectures to the (Royal) Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene devoted to the history of tropical medicine and hygiene.Appendix 2: Major 'milestones' in the history of Tropical Medicine. |
| Responsibility: | G.C. Cook |
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