tropical medicine book review

Scholars have explored the role of tropical medicine in the European search for medicinal plants and spices, in the exchange and acquisition of medicinal and botanical knowledge, in shaping western perceptions of distant lands, in controlling the indigenous populations of those lands, and, not least, in ensuring the physical survival of ...

The Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine, fifth edition is the definitive resource for medical problems in tropical regions, and in low-resource settings. Comprehensive in scope, and concise in style, this portable guide ensures that you always have the vital information you need at your fingertips.

This new fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine is the definitive resource for medical problems in tropical regions, and in low-resource settings. Comprehensive in scope, and concise in style, it is fully revised and updated and includes brand new chapters on humanitarian crises, poisoning and envenoming, nosocomial ...

The book is truly exhaustive, and the syndrome-based listing of the table of contents makes it easy to find relevant chapters (for instance, a chapter on tropical dermatology is quite useful).

The aim of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease is to publish authoritative and original articles, critical and systematic reviews, editorials, perspectives, short communications, commentaries, book reviews, letters to the editor and special issues on all aspects of tropical medicine and tropical infectious disease. All articles will be ...

The Social Production of Metropolitan Expertise in Tropical Diseases: The Imperial State, Colonial Service and the Tropical Diseases Research Fund