MALADIES OF EMPIRE.
| Author/creator | Downs, Jim, 1973- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1ST ED. |
| Publication Info | CAMBRIDGE : HARVARD UNIV PRESS, 2021. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 0674249909 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9780674249905 (electronic bk.) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |