In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese

Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s

Professor Farley describes how governments and organizations faced one particular tropical disease, bilharzia or schistosomiasis.

Networks in Tropical Medicine explores how European doctors and scientists worked together across borders to establish the new field of tropical medicine in the

In recent years it has become apparent that the interaction of imperialism with disease, medical research, and the administration of health policies is consider