Disease and Empire

Few "real" historians have better demonstrated the recent integration of medical history into general historical enquiries than the distinguished Africanist Philip Curtin. More than three decades ago, his book The Image of Africa contained much on health and disease on the Dark Continent. More recently, his Death by Migration revealingly exploited the fact that military records often contain fuller statistics of morbidity and mortality than do their civilian counterparts. In that monograph, he examined the transplantation penalty paid when troops were moved from one tropical disease basin to another, or from the temperate home base to a tropical climate

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