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Maladies of Empire
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Standard histories of infectious disease celebrate brilliant minds such as Florence Nightingale, John Snow, and Robert Koch. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs focuses on a forgotten group of contributors: the conscript soldiers, colonial subjects, and enslaved people whose bodies were the experimental matter on which medical progress relied.
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Maladies of Empire, Jim Downs
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- Title
- Maladies of Empire
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jim Downs
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0674971728
- ISBN13
- 9780674971721
- Category
- Social sciences, History, Prehistoric and ancient times
- Description
- Standard histories of infectious disease celebrate brilliant minds such as Florence Nightingale, John Snow, and Robert Koch. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs focuses on a forgotten group of contributors: the conscript soldiers, colonial subjects, and enslaved people whose bodies were the experimental matter on which medical progress relied.