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1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Epidemiology -- History.
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Epidemiology. |
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History. |
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Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene.
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Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene. |
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Enslaved persons. |
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Imperialism and science.
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Imperialism and science. |
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War -- Medical aspects.
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War -- Medical aspects. |
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Epidemiology -- history. |
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Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene. |
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SCIENCE / History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Downs, Jim, 1973-. Maladies of empire. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021. 9780674971721 (DLC) 2020018202 (OCoLC)1145919534 |
| ISBN |
9780674249905 (electronic book) |
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0674249909 (electronic book) |
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9780674971721 |
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