Maladies Of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, And War Transformed Medicine

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.

• | By (Author): Jim Downs
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 15, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674971728
• | ISBN-13: 9780674971721