title: Miasma revisited - the intellectual history of tropical medicine.
abstract: Tropical medicine arose as an area of medical practice in the last decade of the 19th century. Patrick Manson dominated its early history, and it thrived through the height of the colonial era. With the end of colonialism, tropical medicine underwent an evolution, with the rise of the disciplines of travel medicine, geographic medicine, international health, and global medicine.
authors.affiliation: Hunter Industrial Medicine, Maitland, New South Wales. agibson@med.usyd.edu.au
authors.forename: Andrew D S
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Gibson
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D014195:Travel / Q000266:history; D014330:Tropical Medicine / Q000266:history*