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020			_a9780674971721
041			_aeng
080			_a616-036.22 _bDOW
100	1		_aDowns, Jim
245	1	0	_aMaladies of Empire : _bHow Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
260			_aNew Delhi _bHarvard University Press _c2021
300			_a262p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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			_a"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	_aEpidemiology
650		0	_aSlaves
650		0	_aImperialism and science.
650		0	_aWar
690			_aGeneral
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