Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / Jim Downs.
Downs, Jim, 1973- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2021
RA649 .D68 2021
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Title Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / Jim Downs.
Author Downs, Jim, 1973- author.
ISBN 9780674249905 (electronic book)
0674249909 (electronic book)
9780674971721
0674971728
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number RA649 .D68 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.4
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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: epidemiological practices in the British Empire
Florence Nightingale: the unrecognized epidemiologist of the Crimean War and India
The other civil war: the United States Sanitary Commission's conflicted mission
Narrative maps: black troops, Muslim migrants, and the international cholera epidemic of 1865-6
"Sing, unburied, sing": slavery, Confederacy, and the practice of epidemiology
Conclusion: From subjugation to science.

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