Maladies of Empire : (Record no. 59102)
[ view plain ]
| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 01727cam a22002418i 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 200822s2021 mau b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780674971721 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 616-036.22 |
| Item number | DOW |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Downs, Jim |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Maladies of Empire : |
| Sub Title | How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year of publication | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 262p. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Epidemiology |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Slaves |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Imperialism and science. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | War |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IMSc Library | Second floor, Rack No: 47, Shelf No: 9 | 616-036.22 DOW | 76213 | BOOKS |