January 2017
The US National Library of Medicine features an online collection of films and videos that illustrate the battle against tropical disease between 1927 and 2007 . Check it out!
The materials range from research documentaries, interviews with noted scientists, and public health education campaigns, to films shot on location in regions beset by cholera, dengue fever, and yellow fever.
Read about tropical medicine in Manguinhos:
Kropf, Simone Petraglia and Sá, Magali Romero The discovery of Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease (1908-1909): tropical medicine in Brazil. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, July 2009, vol.16, suppl.1, p.13-34. ISSN 0104-5970
Estrada Orrego, Victoria and Márquez Valderrama, Jorge. Etiología parasitaria y obstáculos epistemológicos: el caso de la malaria en Colombia. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.91-118. ISSN 0104-5970
Mónica García, Claudia. Las ‘fiebres del Magdalena’:medicina y sociedad en la construcción de una noción médica colombiana, 1859-1886. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.63-89. ISSN 0104-5970
Caponi, Sandra. Trópicos, microbios y vectores. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2002, vol.9, p.111-138. ISSN 0104-5970
Caponi, Sandra. Coordenadas epistemológicas de la medicina tropical. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Abr 2003, vol.10, no.1, p.113-149. ISSN 0104-5970
