... maladies du Brésil (1844), remained the most innovative medical work in Brazil until the advent of the Tropicalistas in the 1860s. 18 As the century progressed, the numbers of graduating doctors increased dramatically and advancement in medicine became far more competitive. 19 Thus Robert Dundas...

..., and Medicine revisits this elite conundrum through a group of medical doctors in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador in the nineteenth century. Known collectively as the Escola Tropicalista Bahiana, these doctors resisted the emerging European conventional wisdom concerning the etiology of tropical...

... practices in west Africa; or the embattled rise of the Brazilian tropicalista school of medicine. Such linkages could have helped to better locate Colombia’s unique experience within a broader history of western medicine. Still, as it stands, Sowell’s study offers rich fodder for cultural and political...

... de la sanidad y su interactión social durante los siglos XIX y XX. Julyan Peard resalta la contributión de los médicos brasileños a la medicina tropicalista en Brasil, a través de la Escuela de Bahía, a finales del siglo diecinueve. Jaime Benchimol se ocupa de los comienzos de la bacteriología en...

.... Chapter 1, one of the book's strongest, traces the trajectory of Arthur Ramos, the Brazilian anthropologist who would become the first head of UNESCO's Department of Social Sciences in 1949. Gil-Riaño shows how Ramos built on Bahia's Tropicalista school of medicine and the work of his mentor Nina...

... Western imperialism, Santos Fernández cannot be fit easily into this box. He was more akin to the research-oriented physicians of the Tropicalista school of medicine in Brazil in the second half of the nineteenth century, reevaluated in a series of recent works that reveal nodes of original inquiry...

.... in Brasil Médico, 53 (1961), 1-7. See António Caldas Coni for A escola tropicalista Bahiana: Patterson, Wücherer, Silva Lima (Bahia, 1952). 4 Vedder, “Beriberi and Epidemic Dropsy,” IV, 277. The paralytic form was generally more widespread but less deadly in large part because coordination...

.... Needell, “The Révolta Contra Vacina of 1904: The Revolt Against ‘Modernization’ in Belle Epoque Rio de Janeiro,” HAHR 67:2 (May 1987), 233-70; Julian Peard, “The Tropicalista School of Medicine of Bahia, 1860–1889” (Ph.D. diss., Columbia Univ., 1990); Ronn F. Pineo, “Misery and Death in the Pearl...

... (Bogotá: Univ. Nacional de Colombia, 2004); F. C. Edler, “Escola Tropicalista Baiana (Bahia Tropical School): The Mystical Origin of Tropical Medicine in Brazil,” História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos 9, no. 2 (2002): 357 – 85; Sandra Caponi, “Trópicos, microbios y vectores,” Historia, Ciencias, Saude...