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By uniquely exploring tropicality as an inherently imperial form of medical environmentalism this book assessed the role that medical knowledge played in the history of the American Empire. From the beginning of overseas imperialism to the signing of the Pan-American Sanitary Code and taking into its orbit American colonies and the 'Deep South' it sheds new light on the development of medicine and public health in the early twentieth-century United States.
Price: $24.95
Pages: 262
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives
Publication Date:
01 May 2027
ISBN: 9781807682187
Format: eBook
BISACs:
MEDICAL/History, HISTORY/Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
