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Maladies of Empire // How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

• Jim Downs • ISBN-13 978-0674971721

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Maladies of Empire // How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

• Jim Downs

ISBN-10: 0674971728 · ISBN-13: 978-0674971721 · 2021

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A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology.

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Publisher: Jim Downs
2021
Pages: 272

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Contributor: monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships

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Category: (belknap Press)Category: BodiesCategory: (harvard University Press)Category: HistoryCategory: MedicalCategory: Non-FictionCategory: Politics

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