Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine - Jim Downs - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674971721 - September 7, 2021
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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

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Standard histories of infectious disease celebrate brilliant minds such as Florence Nightingale, John Snow, and Robert Koch. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs focuses on a forgotten group of contributors: the conscript soldiers, colonial subjects, and enslaved people whose bodies were the experimental matter on which medical progress relied.

320 pages, 2 photos

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 7, 2021
ISBN13 9780674971721
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 272
Dimensions 243 × 165 × 30 mm   ·   538 g
Language English  

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