Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War.

Beyond its obvious value for historians of (colonial and imperial) medicine, Harrison's example are applicable to histoians of science and more adventurous intellectual historians willing to engage with some technical material. The bibliography alone is worthy of consultation by anyone seeking a well-organized and thorough background in colonial medicine.

• Introduction ; MEDICINE AS NATURAL HISTORY ; 1. Climate, fevers, and medicine before 1700 ; 2. Sydenham and Boerhaave in the tropics ; 3. The medicine of warm climates ; 4. Pathology, physiology, and race ; TROPICAL THERAPEUTICS ; 1. Inflamed bodies ; 2. Exotics and antiseptics ; 3. Empire of experiment ; 4. A therapeutic revolution ; ILLS OF EMPIRE ; 1. Invalids and entrepreneurs ; 2. The voyager returns ; 3. Albion's coast is sick ; 4. The prospect of invasion ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War.

Beyond its obvious value for historians of (colonial and imperial) medicine, Harrison's example are applicable to histoians of science and more adventurous intellectual historians willing to engage with some technical material. The bibliography alone is worthy of consultation by anyone seeking a well-organized and thorough background in colonial medicine.

• Introduction ; MEDICINE AS NATURAL HISTORY ; 1. Climate, fevers, and medicine before 1700 ; 2. Sydenham and Boerhaave in the tropics ; 3. The medicine of warm climates ; 4. Pathology, physiology, and race ; TROPICAL THERAPEUTICS ; 1. Inflamed bodies ; 2. Exotics and antiseptics ; 3. Empire of experiment ; 4. A therapeutic revolution ; ILLS OF EMPIRE ; 1. Invalids and entrepreneurs ; 2. The voyager returns ; 3. Albion's coast is sick ; 4. The prospect of invasion ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

Mark Harrison is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of medicine, war and imperialism, and on the history of disease. He currently holds a fellowship at Green Templeton College and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is winner of the Templer Medal Book Prize, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research in 2005 for Medicine and Victory: British Military Medicine in the Second World War.

Beyond its obvious value for historians of (colonial and imperial) medicine, Harrison's example are applicable to histoians of science and more adventurous intellectual historians willing to engage with some technical material. The bibliography alone is worthy of consultation by anyone seeking a well-organized and thorough background in colonial medicine.

• Introduction ; MEDICINE AS NATURAL HISTORY ; 1. Climate, fevers, and medicine before 1700 ; 2. Sydenham and Boerhaave in the tropics ; 3. The medicine of warm climates ; 4. Pathology, physiology, and race ; TROPICAL THERAPEUTICS ; 1. Inflamed bodies ; 2. Exotics and antiseptics ; 3. Empire of experiment ; 4. A therapeutic revolution ; ILLS OF EMPIRE ; 1. Invalids and entrepreneurs ; 2. The voyager returns ; 3. Albion's coast is sick ; 4. The prospect of invasion ; Conclusion ; Bibliography