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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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2021
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| Schlagworte: | Epidemiology Slaves Imperialism and science War Imperialismus Kolonialismus Sozialepidemiologie Sklaverei |
| Umfang: | 262 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | "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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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | 262 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780674971721 0674971728 9780674249905 0674249909 |