# History of Medicine and Tropical Health

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/history-of-medicine-and-tropical-health/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 38,762 |
| Description | This cluster of papers covers the history of public health and medicine, with a focus on Latin America, eugenics, disease control, tropical medicine, and global health. It explores the intersection of medicine, public health policies, social ideas, and the impact of diseases on different societies. |
| Domain | Social Sciences |
| Field | Arts and Humanities |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/T12778 |
| Works | 25,123 |

## Topic researchers

- [Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe](https://scholariq.org/researchers/nuwan-darshana-wickramasinghe/)
- [Laura Andrea Rodríguez-Villamizar](https://scholariq.org/researchers/laura-andrea-rodriguez-villamizar/)
- [John Eckman](https://scholariq.org/researchers/john-eckman/)
- [Filipe Dantas‐Torres](https://scholariq.org/researchers/filipe-dantas-torres/)
- [Nicholas B. King](https://scholariq.org/researchers/nicholas-b-king/)
- [Larissa Pruner Marques](https://scholariq.org/researchers/larissa-pruner-marques/)

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Source: ScholarIQ — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://scholariq.org/sources/ for provenance and https://scholariq.org/methodology/ for what these figures mean.