Maladies of Empire : How colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine

"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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1. Verfasser:	Downs, Jim 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021
Schlagworte:	Epidemiology Slaves Imperialism and science War Imperialismus Kolonialismus Sozialepidemiologie Sklaverei
Umfang:	262 Seiten