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And I'm going to argue that tropical medicine,
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and particularly in this formative early period
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before the First World War,
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was clearly socially constructed.
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This is a period
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that coincides with the high tide of colonial expansion,
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the age of the scramble for Africa.
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And tropical medicine gave expression
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to an imperial view of the world,
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and it marked the relationship,
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in medical terms, between Western Europe, on the one hand,
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and Asia and Africa on the other,