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Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960

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Editors:
  1. Mauro Capocci

    1. Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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  2. Daniele Cozzoli

    1. Department of Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

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  • Offers a new perspective on the history of science and medicine by exploring colonialism outside of the British Empire
  • Redefines the concept of ‘tropical medicine’ by connecting medical history and the process of nation-building
  • Provides an interdisciplinary and diverse coverage of imperial dominions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Part of the book series: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History (MBSMH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: The Age of Empire, the Making of the Modern Nation, and the Advancement of Medical Sciences

    • Mauro Capocci, Daniele Cozzoli
    Pages 1-25

  4. Tropical Medical Institutions and Imperial, Commercial, and Political Expansion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. The Business of Tropical Medicine: Connections Between Anti-malarial Campaigns in Sierra Leone, 1899–1901, and Jamaica, 1908

      • Juanita De Barros, Deborah J. Neill
      Pages 75-99

    3. Leishmaniases in Brazil: A Historical Approach

      • Jaime Larry Benchimol
      Pages 101-135

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 207-223
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About this book

This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening existing historiographical perspectives, it explores imperialism outside of the British Empire, drawing on case studies from other colonial experiences in Africa, Asia, and South America in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Each of these systems adopted different approaches to colonial health and medicine. By studying their diversity, it is possible to obtain a more comprehensive picture of what we now call ‘tropical medicine.’ The authors emphasise that the British model cannot be adapted to all colonial experiences, drawing on relevant cases from both interoceanic and continental empires. The collection comprises three sections. The first examines the role of tropical medicine in the evolution and collapse of empire in countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands. The second part analyses the links between tropical medical institutions and imperial commercial and political expansion in Britain and Brazil. Finally, the authors tackle the crucial interrelated circulation of people, objects, and ideas amongst countries including Brazil, China, Italy, and Spain. Using a medical lens to analyse the inter-connected processes of nation-building and colonial expansion in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this book provides valuable reading for scholars of imperialism and medical history alike.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Mauro Capocci

  • Department of Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

    Daniele Cozzoli

About the editors

Mauro Capocci is Associate Professor at the University of Pisa, Italy, where he teaches the History of Science and Medicine. His research focusses mostly on the history of contemporary Italian biomedical sciences, as detailed in several publications in international journals.

Daniele Cozzoli is Associate Professor (Professor Agregat) of the History of Science at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Daniele has published two books in Italian and a number of articles and chapters on the history of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, biomedical sciences in the twentieth century, and the historiography of science.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960

  • Editors: Mauro Capocci, Daniele Cozzoli

  • Series Title: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38805-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38804-0Published: 21 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38807-1Due: 23 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38805-7Published: 20 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2947-9142

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-9150

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 223

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Medicine, History of Science, European History, Modern History

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