| framing tropical disease in london: patrick manson, filaria perstans, and the uganda sleeping sickness epidemic, 1891-1902. | much of the historical literature on tropical medicine represents the periphery as the chief site for the production of western knowledge about disease in the british empire. this study on the filaria perstans-sleeping sickness hypothesis revises this perspective by showing how the imperial metropole functioned as a culture space for the construction of knowledge about the empire. beginning in 1891, patrick manson used the publicity resources of london to generate a rhetorical imperative for the ... | 2000 | 14535273 |