Disease and Empire : The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
9780521598354
0-521-59835-4
From 1815 to 1914, death rates of European soliders, both those serving at home and abroad, dropped by nearly 90%. But this drop applied mainly to soliders in barracks. Soliders on campaign, especially.
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in the tropics, continued to die from disease at rates as high as ever. This book examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa, especially in the 1880s and 1890s. Curtin examines what was done, what was not done, and the impact of doctors' successes and failures on the willingness of Europeans to embark on imperial adventures.
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