Keywords
tropical medicine
colonialism
racism
ideology
Trópico
medicina tropical
colonialismo
racismo
ideología
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Abstract
This article develops a relational-descriptive analysis between the myth of the tropic and the birth of the tropical medicine, framed in European colonial experience of Tropical Africa. In addition, they addressed the socio-historical conditions of this process and the mythical and pseudoscientific variants that were part of it.References
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