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Tropical World of Samuel Taylor Darling: Parasites, Pathology and Philanthropy
E Chaves-Carballo
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Hardback. Samuel Taylor Darling (1872-1925), one of the world's leading experts in tropical diseases in the early twentieth century, investigated malaria, hookworm, amebiasis and other tropical diseases in Panama, the Far East, South Africa, Brazil and the southern United States. He is also credited with discovering histoplasmosis. This is his biography. Num Pages: 260 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGT; MMRT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Samuel Taylor Darling (1872-1925), one of the world's leading experts in tropical diseases in the early twentieth century, investigated malaria, hookworm, amebiasis and other tropical diseases in Panama, the Far East, South Africa, Brazil and the southern United States. As a pathologist, he performed more than four-thousand autopsies among employees of the Panama Canal Company who died between 1905 and 1914. This experience gave him a singular perspective on the anatomical pathology of tropical diseases. The results of his innovative work helped him to develop new concepts about diagnosis and treatment of malaria (spleen index and species-specific mosquito control); amebic ... Read more
Samuel Taylor Darling (1872-1925), one of the world's leading experts in tropical diseases in the early twentieth century, investigated malaria, hookworm, amebiasis and other tropical diseases in Panama, the Far East, South Africa, Brazil and the southern United States. As a pathologist, he performed more than four-thousand autopsies among employees of the Panama Canal Company who died between 1905 and 1914. This experience gave him a singular perspective on the anatomical pathology of tropical diseases. The results of his innovative work helped him to develop new concepts about diagnosis and treatment of malaria (spleen index and species-specific mosquito control); amebic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845191832
SKU
V9781845191832
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About E Chaves-Carballo
E Chaves-Carballo is Clinical Professor of History and Philosophy of Medicine at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas, USA. He worked as a physician at Gorgas Hospital in Panama and has published articles on yellow fever, malaria, tuberculosis, and history of tropical medicine in Lancet, Bulletin of History of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association and Military Medicine.
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