Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / Jim Downs.
Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / Jim Downs.
Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / Jim Downs.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2021]
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G 2021/1610
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English
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262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: The laboring dead -- Crowded places: the roots of fresh air -- Missing persons: the decline of contagion theory and the rise of epidemiology -- Discovering epidemiology's voice: slavery, science, and the development of epidemiological methods in West Africa -- Recordkeeping: epidemiolo...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2021]
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Massachusetts
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[2021]
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"Standard histories of medicine celebrate brilliant Westerners such as Florence Nightingale and John Snow. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs turns our focus to another key group of contributors: the subjugated peoples-forced into close quarters by enslavement and empire-whose bodies were the experimental matter on which medical progress relied"...
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Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / Jim Downs.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2021/1610
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74VKaazZwVzd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaazZwVzd
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0674971728
9780674971721
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614.4
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991024420910902626
