Future of tropical medicine
- 4 May 1996
- Vol. 312 (7039) , 1160
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7039.1160
Abstract
EDITOR,—Any discussion/debate on “tropical medicine”1 should take cognisance of major differences between the formal discipline (which developed in the “western world” in the early days of the 20th century) and “medicine in the tropics.”2 3 The former was to a large extent artificial, being designed to provide medical care for servants of Empire and Raj after return to Britain, and was largely moulded by governmental (political) pressures, with …Keywords
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