History of Tropical Medicine, and Medicine in the Tropics

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Gordon C. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Tropics

The History of Yellow Fever: An Essay on the Birth of Tropical Medicine

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 499
Author(s):  
John Duffy ◽  
Francois Delaporte
Keyword(s):  
Yellow Fever ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Ancestry and evolution of seasonal migration in the Parulidae

2011 ◽  
Vol 279 (1728) ◽  
pp. 610-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin M. Winger ◽  
Irby J. Lovette ◽  
David W. Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Signal ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Ancestral State ◽  
Migratory Behaviour ◽  
Wood Warbler ◽  
Wood Warblers ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Tropics

Seasonal migration in birds is known to be highly labile and subject to rapid change in response to selection, such that researchers have hypothesized that phylogenetic relationships should neither predict nor constrain the migratory behaviour of a species. Many theories on the evolution of bird migration assume a framework that extant migratory species have evolved repeatedly and relatively recently from sedentary tropical or subtropical ancestors. We performed ancestral state reconstructions of migratory behaviour using a comprehensive, well-supported phylogeny of the Parulidae (the ‘wood-warblers’), a large family of Neotropical and Nearctic migratory and sedentary songbirds, and examined the rates of gain and loss of migration throughout the Parulidae. Counter to traditional hypotheses, our results suggest that the ancestral wood-warbler was migratory and that losses of migration have been at least as prevalent as gains throughout the history of Parulidae. Therefore, extant sedentary tropical radiations in the Parulidae represent losses of latitudinal migration and colonization of the tropics from temperate regions. We also tested for phylogenetic signal in migratory behaviour, and our results indicate that although migratory behaviour is variable within some wood-warbler species and clades, phylogeny significantly predicts the migratory distance of species in the Parulidae.

Architecture Culture, Humanitarian Expertise:

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Joint Activity ◽  
Joint Construction ◽  
Mutual Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Anchor Points ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Shared Mission

Architecture Culture, Humanitarian Expertise: From the Tropics to Shelter, 1953–93 recovers a history of architecture and humanitarianism through an examination of institutions and the development of a subfield of professional practice. Charting mutual interest between major humanitarian agencies and the architecture and planning professions, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi maps the joint construction of expertise, tying together three sets of concerns: preoccupations with the tropics and climate as anchor points for the science and rationalization behind building design, the institutionalization of humanitarian spatial expertise in the academy and industry, and a tension between models for development and for relief. This joint activity and its discursive themes, from the “tropics” to “shelter”—whether aggrandizing or instrumentalizing the shared mission of architecture and humanitarianism—raised the stakes for architectural expertise as a driver for practice as well as history.

Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine 5e

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
Practical Tool ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Source Of Information

The Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine provides an authoritative, accessible and comprehensive, signs-and-symptoms-based source of information on medical problems commonly seen in the tropics. Designed to be used as a practical tool for diagnosis and management, it is an essential and handy guide for trainees and clinicians in the tropics, and medical officers working in district or rural level hospitals in the developing world.

Myiasis

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1195-1195
Author(s):  
A. M. E. Pichanick
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Blow Fly ◽  
Flesh Fly ◽  
Bot Fly ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Tumbu Fly

I would like to correct some of the impressions left by the report of a case of myiasis in the July 1979 issue of Pediatrics.1 In the first place, the authors' statement that there have been no recent reports is not altogether true, as a few minutes in the library soon turned some up,2,3 with a very clear account by Jeliffe,4 for example, and, indeed, in all the standard works on tropical medicine.5-8 Myiasis is, after all, common and widespread in the tropics and subtropics, and is well known to the natives and settlers in these areas, where it has a variety of local names such as Tumbu fly or Putsi fly in Africa, Warble fly, blow fly, flesh fly, bot fly, and screw worm in America.

Assessing the sustainability of yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus) harvest in northeastern Argentina

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Camera ◽  
Christine Stüssmann ◽  
Itxaso Quintana ◽  
Tomás Waller ◽  
Mariano Barros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Gradual Reduction ◽  
Hunting Season ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Northeastern Argentina

Abstract Sustainable wildlife management is required to guarantee source species viability; however, it is practiced rarely in the tropics. The yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus) has a long history of being harvested for its leather. Since 2002 its harvest has operated under a management program in northeastern Argentina, which relies on adaptive management through limiting the minimum anaconda length, number of hunters and restricting the hunting season. We investigated the effects of the anaconda harvest on its biological parameters based on 2002-2016 data. Here we show that the levels of species exploitation are sustainable. The gradual reduction in the annual hunting effort, due to a decrease in number of hunters and hunting season duration, reduced the total number of anacondas harvested. Conversely, captures per unit effort increased across the study time-period. There was no variation in the mean length of anacondas harvested, or in largest anaconda sizes. Though more females than males were caught, the sex ratio did not vary significantly. We also found that a decrease in mean temperature positively influenced anaconda harvest and the captures of giant individuals. Because sustainable use is a powerful tool for conservation, those discoveries are highly applicable to other species and regions.

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