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Elaine LaFay presented “‘The slandered torrid zone’: Medicine, Botany, and the Imperial Vision of an American Tropics along the U.S. Gulf Coast, 1820–1840,” a chapter from her dissertation.
Melanie Kiechle, assistant professor of history at Virginia Tech, has agreed to contribute a comment.
A copy of the discussion paper is uploaded to the Medicine and Health Work Group site.
LaFay is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and currently a Marguerite Bartlett Hamer Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.