Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine - Jim Downs - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674293861 - October 10, 2023
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Jim Downs
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.

272 pages, 2 photos

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Released October 10, 2023
ISBN13 9780674293861
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 272
Dimensions 210 × 140 × 21 mm   ·   280 g
Language English  

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