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The Scientific Space of Knowledge: Medical Missionaries, Tropical Medicine and the Age of Hygiene

  • Ratschiller Nasim L
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27128-1_3
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This chapter shows that the Basel Mission doctors participated in a scientific space of knowledge, in which hygiene came to dominate a wide range of research areas and radically transformed people’s lives across all levels of European societies. It starts by...

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Ratschiller Nasim, L. M. (2023). The Scientific Space of Knowledge: Medical Missionaries, Tropical Medicine and the Age of Hygiene (pp. 105–155). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27128-1_3

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