Rita Pemberton explains that although the colonies were rich in natural resources, this wealth was not reflected in the population’s health or sanitary conditions.

Elaine LaFay discusses how regional assessments raise questions about meanings of tropicality and cultural understandings of tropical diseases.

The workshop is part of the project Policies and Practices of Public Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Historical Perspective.

Tropical medicine and global health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are the main topics of the event.

Published in English by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, the journal features original research throughout the fields of tropical medicine.