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Genre/Form: | Livres électroniques Biographies History Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Cook, Gordon Charles. Tropical medicine. Paris ; London : Academic, ©2007 (DLC) 2008297113 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gordon Charles Cook |
OCLC Number: | 840846466 |
Notes: | Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 7 janv. 2013). TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
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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