Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / Jim Downs.

"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 th...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Downs, Jim, 1973- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Subjects:	Epidemiology > History. Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene. Imperialism and science. War > Medical aspects.