'Combating' tropical diseases in the German colonial press.

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The emergence of tropical medicine in Portugal: the School of Tropical Medicine and the Colonial Hospital of Lisbon (1902-1935).

The School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1902 along with the Colonial Hospital of Lisbon. The Portuguese government recognized the importance of colonising the tropics and therefore supported the creation of a specific locus of medical training that would prove to be crucial to the clinical and experimental study of tropical diseases. This paper examines the importance of such institution...

Medical Science Meets ‘Development Aid’ Transfer and Adaptation of West German Microbiology to Togo, 1960–1980

After losing the importance it had held around 1900 both as a colonial power and in the field of tropical medicine, Germany searched for a new place in international health care during decolonisation. Under the aegis of early government 'development aid', which started in 1956, medical academics from West German universities became involved in several Asian, African and South American countries...

Médecine et santé—Medical practices and health

This is the fourth in a series of collections under the general editorship of Roland Waast, on the history of western science beyond the West. While concentrating on medical practices and health, it is not simply another volume on "tropical" or "colonial" medicine but a more general survey of the spread of western medicine and its modification in non-western contexts, colonial and post-colonial...

Ciencia e historia: debates y tendencias en la historiografía de la ciencia

This is the fourth in a series of collections under the general editorship of Roland Waast, on the history of western science beyond the West. While concentrating on medical practices and health, it is not simply another volume on "tropical" or "colonial" medicine but a more general survey of the spread of western medicine and its modification in non-western contexts, colonial and post-colonial...