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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

By Jim Downs

Book information

Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard
Year
2021
ISBN
9780674249882, 9780674249905, 2020018202, 9780674971721
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13108657 bytes)
Pages
\273
Time added
2021-09-08 11:52:37

Description

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction 1. Crowded Places: Slave Ships, Prisons, and Fresh Air 2. Missing Persons: The Decline of Contagion Theory and the Rise of Epidemiology 3. Epidemiology’s Voice: Tracing Fever in Cape Verde 4. Recordkeeping: Epidemiological Practices in the British Empire 5. Florence Nightingale: The Unrecognized Epidemiologist of the Crimean War and India 6. From Benevolence to Bigotry: The US Sanitary Commission’s Conflicted Mission 7. “Sing, Unburied, Sing”: Slavery, the Confederacy, and the Practice of Epidemiology 8. Narrative Maps: Black Troops, Muslim Pilgrims, and the Cholera Pandemic of 1865–1866 Conclusion: The Roots of Epidemiology Notes Acknowledgments Index

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