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Title Maladies of empire : how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / Jim Downs.

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text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Subject Epidemiology -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene.
Imperialism and science.
War -- Medical aspects.
Epidemiology -- history.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Related To Original 9780674971721 0674971728 (DLC) 2020018202
ISBN 9780674249905 (electronic bk.)
0674249909 (electronic bk.)
9780674971721
0674971728
OCLC # EBC6708110
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