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SUMMARY:Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century Briti
 sh natural history - Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosoph
 y of Science)
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CONTACT:David Allan Feller
DESCRIPTION:In the late nineteenth century\, British medical texts began t
 o characterize the colonial tropics as hazardous\, inhospitable environmen
 ts threatening refined European constitutions with a multitude of exotic d
 iseases\, to the point that colonials returning from tropical areas were 
 “profiled” as medically problematic\, i.e.\, “tropical invalids.” 
  To close our Michaelmas Cabinet Term this coming Monday\, 27 November\, S
 alim Al-Gailani (HPS\, Cambridge University) will explore how former India
 n medical men invested the return of 'tropical invalids' to Britain with p
 hysiological\, psychological and cultural meaning\, and in that course des
 cribed essential elements of the colonial experience and how it helped to 
 shape the communication and reception of medical knowledge across the Brit
 ish Empire.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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