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This article aims at reflecting on the relationship between tropical medicine and the environment, when analyzed in the light of the impact of Portuguese public health policies, in the context of the European imperialism of the 20th century, using as a case study the process that led to the eradication of sleeping sickness, in the Príncipe Island, 1914. Using the theoretical framework of the history of tropical medicine, we will reflect on the effects of a sanitary mandate of the lato sensu environment, which characterized the path of the Portuguese medical community, in the eradication of the disease: the political, biological and human environment. In this way we intend not only to contribute to a broader discussion on epidemiology and the environment, in the early 20th century in Africa, but also, and responding to the questions of our time, leave open a set of questions about human well-being, habitats of glossines and trypanosomes. In short ... on the meaning of diseases ecology, in global development and Anthropocene agenda.
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Anthropocene Environment Sleeping sickness Tropical medicine General Environmental Science General Social Sciences SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being