Tropical medicine

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Blood drawn from an infant in Jos , Nigeria

The Tropical Medicine is the field of medicine that deals with the control, prevention and epidemiology employed by diseases that exclusively or mainly in tropical and subtropical climates occur or distributed starting from there around the world.

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While classical tropical medicine as a sub-field of infectious diseases only includes infectious diseases , the field of modern tropical medicine has also been expanded to include non-infectious diseases in these climatic zones and the special social and economic conditions of medical care in tropical countries; this applies equally to diseases in humans and animals. The increasing long-distance tourism and additional migrations justify the special importance of tropical medicine in the prevention , detection and treatment of so-called imported tropical diseases in non-tropical countries. Tropical medicine is therefore also part of travel medicine and the state control of epidemics .

Tropical medicine as an independent subject did not emerge until the last third of the 19th century. Although in ancient times and especially since the Age of Discovery with the rise of the European maritime powers there were frequent reports of diseases that only occurred in warm climates or were introduced to Europe from there, no independent medical specialty emerged. Only when the colonial economic systems of industrialization and scientific advances in the fields of medical microbiology , bacteriology and parasitology came together in the 19th century led to targeted research and specialization. Reinhold Ruge and Peter Mühlens are well-known tropical medicine specialists of the 20th century .


literature

Textbooks

  • CG Meyer: Tropical Medicine: Infectious Diseases . 3. Edition. Landsberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-609-16512-7
  • W. Lang, Th. Löscher: Tropical medicine in clinic and practice . 3. Edition. Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-13-785803-8
  • Gordon C. Cook, Alimuddin I. Zumla (Eds.): Manson's Tropical Diseases . 21st edition. London 2002, ISBN 0-7020-2640-9
  • Horst SH Seifert: Tropical animal hygiene . Jena / Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-334-60379-2
  • Jürgen Knobloch (Ed.): Tropical and travel medicine. Gustav Fischer, Jena / Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-437-31076-3
  • David Werner: Where There Is No Doctor . Hesperian Health Guides (a handbook very popular in tropical developing countries that guides laypersons to help themselves).

History of colonial and tropical medicine

  • Wolfgang U. Eckart: Medicine and Colonial Imperialism: Germany 1884-1945. Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-506-72181-X
  • Roy MacLeod, Milton Lewis (Eds.): Disease, medicine, and empire. Perspectives on western medicine and the experience of European expansion . London / New York 1988, ISBN 0-415-00685-6
  • Mark Harrison: Public health in British India. Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914 . Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-46688-1
  • Alex McKay: Their Footprints Remain. Biomedical Beginnings Across the Indo-Tibetan Frontier. Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-5356-518-6 ( full text )
  • David Arnold (Ed.): Warm Climates and Western Medicine: The Emergence of Tropical Medicine, 1500-1900 . Amsterdam / Atlanta 1996, ISBN 90-5183-911-1
  • Angela von den Driesch , Joris Peters: History of veterinary medicine . 2nd Edition. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7945-2169-2
  • Roy Porter: The Art of Healing. A medical history of mankind from ancient times to the present day. Heidelberg / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8274-1454-7 (Chapter Tropical Medicine and Worldwide Diseases , pp. 465–494)
  • Gisela Graichen, Horst Founder: German colonies. Dream and trauma . Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-548-36940-2
  • Thomas D. Brock: Robert Koch: A life in Medicine and Bacteriology , Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1988, ISBN 3-540-19344-8 (chapter Africa Years: Robert Koch's Research in Tropical Medicine , pp. 237-266)
  • Johannes W. Grüntzig, Heinz Mehlhorn: Expeditions into the realm of epidemics. Medical ascension orders of the German imperial and colonial times . Munich 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1622-1
  • Sven Tode: Research - Heal - Teach: 100 years of the Hamburg Tropical Institute . Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-921762-02-2
  • Eike Pies: Willem Piso (1611–1678) - founder of colonial medicine and personal physician to Count Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen in Brazil . Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-923130-02-3

Trade journals

Tropical medicine institutions

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