A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions—sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex—resulted from the U.S. Navy’s introduction o

A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness, relating it to the western 'civilising mission'.

Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma is an examination of the factors that shaped demographic change in Burma between 1852 and 1941. Despite increasing cont

This book examines the relationship between indigenous populations in the north-central highlands of Ecuador and disease, especially those infections introduced

Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian f