Maladies of empire
how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine
- ISBN: 9780674293861
- Editorial: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (MSS). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 21 cm
- Nº Pág.: 262
- Idiomas: Inglés
Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene. Yet focusing on individual innovators ignores many of the darker, unacknowledged sources of medical knowledge.
Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of conscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire. From Africa and India to the Americas, plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories where physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Boldly argued and urgently relevant, Maladies of Empire gives a long overdue account of the true price of medical progress.
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
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