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ISBN 10: 0123739918
ISBN 13: 9780123739919
Author: Gordon Charles Cook
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.
1. Early pioneers of ‘medicine in the tropics’
2. Origins of the formal discipline: background factors
3. Patrick Manson (1844–1922): father of the newly-formed speciality, filariasis research, and founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine
4. Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922): discovery of the causative agent of malaria in 1880
5. Ronald Ross (1857–1932): the role of the Italian malariologists, and scientific verification of mosquito transmission of malaria
6. Carlos Finlay (1833–1915): yellow fever research in southern America
7. James Cantlie (1851–1926): tropical surgeon, university administrator, and founder of the (Royal) Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
8. George Carmichael Low (1872–1952): an underrated pioneer, and contributor to the (Royal) Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
9. David Bruce (1855–1931): Malta fever, nagana, and East African trypanosomiasis
10. The schistosomiasis saga: Theodor Bilharz (1825–62), Robert Leiper (1881–1969), and the Japanese investigators
11. Joseph Everett Dutton (1874–1905): West African trypanosomiasis and relapsing fever
12. The causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar): William Leishman (1865–1926) and Charles Donovan (1863–1951)
13. Leonard Rogers (1868–1962): the diseases of Bengal, and the founding of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine
14. Aldo Castellani (1877–1971): research in the tropics, and founding of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases
15. Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891–1966): medicine in the tropics, and the future of clinical tropical medicine
16. Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943), and other contributors in solving the plague problem
17. Andrew Balfour (1873–1931): pioneer of preventive medicine in the tropics and first Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
18. Some less well-documented pioneers
19. ‘Back-room’ and lay pioneers of the specialty
20. Politicians and entrepreneurs: the Chamberlains (father and son), Alfred Jones and Herbert Read
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