Forensic Medicine

Bilharzia

Name: Bilharzia
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521400862
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BILHARZIA

Contributor(s): Farley, John Author Format: Hardback

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ISBN	9780521400862
Subtitle	BILHARZIA
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	March 1991
Language	English
MRP	£114.00 GBP
Page count	372
Item weight	158 g

The advent of tropical medicine was a direct consequence of European and American imperialism, when military personnel, colonial administrators, businessmen, and settlers encountered a new set of diseases endemic to the tropics. Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations in Britain, the British colonies, the United States, Central and South America, South Africa, China, and the World Health Organization faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis. Bilharzia is caused by a species of blood vessel-inhabiting parasitic worms and today afflicts over 200 million people in seventy-four countries. Author Farley demonstrates that British and American imperial policies and attitudes largely determined the nature of tropical medicine. Western medical practitioners defined the type of medical system that was imposed on the indigenous populations; they dictated which diseases were important and worthy of study, which diseases were to be controlled, and which control methods were to be used. Historians, historians of medicine, parasitologists, and experts in tropical medicine will find this a fascinating study.

Bilharzia

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Farley, John Author

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