Tropical Medicine: An Illustrated History of The PioneersThis superbly illustrated work provides short accounts of the lives and scientific contributions of all of the major pioneers of Tropical Medicine. Largely biographical, the stories discussed enlighten a new generation of scientists to the advances made by their predecessors. Written by Gordon Cook, contributor to the hugely popular Manson’s Tropical Diseases, this report discusses the pioneers themselves and offers a global accounting of their experiences at the onset of the discipline. |
Contents
background factors | 33 |
father of the newlyformed speciality filariasis research and founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine | 51 |
discovery of the causative agent of malaria in 1880 | 67 |
the role of the Italian malariologists and scientific verification of mosquito transmission of malaria | 81 |
yellow fever research in southern America | 103 |
tropical surgeon university administrator and founder of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 115 |
an underrated pioneer and contributor to the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 127 |
Malta fever nagana and East African trypanosomiasis | 145 |
research in the tropics and founding of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases | 197 |
medicine in the tropics and the future of clinical tropical medicine | 211 |
Chapter 16 Alexandre Yersin 18631943 and other contributers in solving the plague problem | 219 |
pioneer of preventive medicine in the tropics and first Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | 225 |
Chapter 18 Some less welldocumented pioneers | 233 |
Chapter 19 Backroom and lay pioneers of the specialty | 243 |
the Chamberlains father and son Alfred Jones and Herbert Read | 251 |
Epilogue | 261 |
Theodor Bilharz 182562 Robert Leiper 18811969 and the Japanese investigators | 157 |
West African trypanosomiasis and relapsing fever | 167 |
William Leishman 18651926 and Charles Donovan 18631951 | 177 |
the diseases of Bengal and the founding of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine | 183 |
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