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    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.
    [NT 15003449]: 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.
    [NT 15003449]: Early pioneers of 'medicine in the tropics' -- Origins of the formal discipline: background factors -- Patrick Manson (1844-1922): father of the newly-formed speciality, filariasis research, and founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine -- Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922): discovery of the causative agent of malaria in 1880 -- Ronald Ross (1857-1932): the role of the Italian malariologists, and scientific verification of mosquito transmission of malaria -- Carlos Finlay (1833-1915): yellow fever research in southern America -- James Cantlie (1851-1926): tropical surgeon, university administrator, and founder of the (Royal) Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene -- George Carmichael Low (1872-1952): an underrated pioneer, and contributor to the (Royal) Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene -- David Bruce (1855-1931): Malta fever, nagana and East African trypanosomiasis -- The Schistosomiasis saga: Theodor Bilharz (1825-62), Robert Leiper (1881-1969), and the Japanese investigators -- Joseph Everett Dutton (1874-1905): West African trypanosomiasis and relapsing fever -- The causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis (kal-azar): William Leishman (1865-1926) and Charles Donovan (1863-1951) -- Leonard Rogers (1868-1962): the diseases of Bengal, and the founding of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine -- Aldo Castellani (1877-1971): research in the tropics, and founding of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases -- Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891-1966): medicine in the tropics, and the future of clinical tropical medicine -- Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943), and other contributers in solving the plague problem -- Andrew Balfour (1873-1931): pioneer of preventive medicine in the tropics and first Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine -- Some less well-documented pioneers -- 'Back-room' and lay pioneers of the specialty -- Politicians and entrepreneurs: the Chamberlains (father and son), Alfred Jones and Herbert Read.
    Subject: Tropical medicine - Biography. -
    Online resource: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123739919An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
    ISBN: 9780123739919
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