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By Douglas M. Haynes. 229 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. $37.50. ISBN 0-8122-3598-3.

In recent years, many historians have argued that the development of medicine in Great Britain during the Victorian era took place in an imperial rather than a national framework, but no one has tried to prove the point until now. Douglas M. Haynes's ambitious book, Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease, is based on an impressive mining of primary sources. Haynes has set himself a difficult task by working on such a large project through biography, even with someone as prominent and influential as Patrick Manson, the man who found that the mosquito was a vector . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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