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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Crowded Places: Slave Ships, Prisons, and Fresh Air
- 2. Missing Persons: The Decline of Contagion Theory and the Rise of Epidemiology
- 3. Epidemiology's Voice: Tracing Fever in Cape Verde
- 4. Recordkeeping: Epidemiological Practices in the British Empire
- 5. Florence Nightingale: The Unrecognized Epidemiologist of the Crimean War and India
- 6. From Benevolence to Bigotry: The US Sanitary Commission's Conflicted Mission
- 7. "Sing, Unburied, Sing": Slavery, the Confederacy, and the Practice of Epidemiology
- 8. Narrative Maps: Black Troops, Muslim Pilgrims, and the Cholera Pandemic of 1865-1866
- Conclusion: The Roots of Epidemiology
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index