Maladies of Empire
How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Jim Downs
Jim Downs is Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is the editor of Civil War History and author and editor of six other books, including Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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- Autor: Jim Downs
- 2023, 262 Seiten, Maße: 14,5 x 21,1 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Harvard University Press
- ISBN-10: 067429386X
- ISBN-13: 9780674293861
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2023
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Englisch
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