Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included.

Roy MacLeod is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He writes in the social history of science, technology and exploration in Australasia and the Pacific. His early work focused on the history of vaccination and epidemic disease, and he taught imperial and global medical and military history at Sydney for many years. His current work studies the changing dimensions of science, medicine and technology in global geopolitics and cooperation in Space.

Milton Lewis was Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney. He has had a long- term interest in how history can contribute to better understanding of health problems and policy. His last three books have focussed on the impact of globalisation on the health of the peoples of the diverse polities, economies, societies and cultures of Asia and the Pacific.

Part 1: European Medicine and Imperial Experience 1. Manson, Ross and Colonial Medical Policy: Tropical Medicine in London and Liverpool, 1899-1914 2. Imperial Health in British India, 1857 - 1900 3. European Medicine in the Cook Islands 4. Medicine and German Colonial Expansion in the Pacific: The Caroline, Mariana and Marshall islands 5. French Colonial Medicine and Colonial Rule: Algeria and Indochina Part 2: European Medicine and Colonial Practice 6. Temperate Medicine and Settler Capitalism: On the Reception of Western Medical Ideas 7. Medical Professionalism in Colonial Carolina 8. Public Health and the Medical Profession in Nineteenth-Century Canada 9. 'Our Salubrious Climate': Attitudes to Health in Colonial Queensland 10. The Medical Profession in Colonial Victoria, 1834-1901 Part 3: Crises of Empire: The Politics of Race and Epidemic Disease 11. 'The Dreadful Scourge': Responses to Smallpox in Sydney and Melbourne, 1991-2 12. Sleeping Sickness, Colonial Medicine and Imperialism: Some Connections in the Belgian Congo 13. Typhus and Social Control: South Africa 1917-1950 14. Cholera and Colonialism in the Philippines, 1899-1903 15. The 'Health' of the Race' and Infant Health in New South Wales: Perspectives on Medicine and Empire.