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Tropical medicine = an illustrated history of the pioneers /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tropical medicine/ Gordon Cook.
Reminder of title:	an illustrated history of the pioneers /
Author:	Cook, G. C.
Published:	Paris ;Academic, : 2007.,
Description:	xvi, 278 p. :ill., maps ; : 24 cm.;
Subject:	Tropical medicine - Biography. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780123739919

Tropical medicine = an illustrated history of the pioneers /
Cook, G. C.

Tropical medicinean illustrated history of the pioneers /[electronic resource] :Gordon Cook. - Paris ;Academic,2007. - xvi, 278 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early pioneers of Medicine in the Tropics -- Origins of the formal discipline -- Patrick 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 speciality -- Politicians and entrepreneurs -- Epilogue -- Appendix 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.

This 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 Mansons Tropical Diseases, this report discusses the pioneers themselves and offers a global accounting of their experiences at the onset of the discipline.

Electronic reproduction.
Amsterdam :
Elsevier Science & Technology,
2008.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780123739919

Source: 138478:138615Elsevier Science & Technologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Tropical medicine
--Biography.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Biography.

LC Class. No.: RC961.5 / .C659 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 616.98830922

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