Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine
Downs, Jim, 1973-2021
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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.
Main title:
Author:
Downs, Jim, 1973-, author
Imprint:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Collation:
262 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780674971721 (hbk)
Dewey class:
614.4
LC class:
RA649
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3007784