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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021Description: 262 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674274686 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 614.4 DOW 018903
Contents:
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
Summary: "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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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

"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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