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Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine /
"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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674249905 0674249909 9780674249882 0674249887 |