- Description
- 1 online resource (262 pages)
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Maladies of empire (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Maladies of empire (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-243) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: The laboring dead -- Crowded places: the roots of fresh air -- Missing persons: the decline of contagion theory and the rise of epidemiology -- Discovering epidemiology's voice: slavery, science, and the development of epidemiological methods in West Africa -- Recordkeeping: epidemiological practices in the British Empire -- Florence Nightingale: the unrecognized epidemiologist of the Crimean War and India -- The other civil war: the United States Sanitary Commission's conflicted mission -- Narrative maps: black troops, Muslim migrants, and the international cholera epidemic of 1865-6 -- "Sing, unburied, sing": slavery, Confederacy, and the practice of epidemiology -- Conclusion: From subjugation to science.
- LCCN
- 2020018202
- OCLC
- ssj0002471453
- Author
Downs, Jim, 1973-
- Title
Maladies of empire [electronic resource] : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / Jim Downs.
- Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-243) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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