Tropical Medicine
An Illustrated History of The Pioneers

Gordon Cook (Author)

9780123739919, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 17 September 2007

296 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.54 kg

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

Early pioneers of ‘Medicine in the Tropics’Origins of the formal disciplinePatrick 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 specialityPoliticians and entrepreneursEpilogueAppendix 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.

Subject Areas: Popular medicine & health [VFD], Virology [non-medical PSGL], Microbiology [non-medical PSG], Tropical medicine [MMRT], Medical parasitology [MMFP], Infectious & contagious diseases [MJCJ], Public health & preventive medicine [MBN]