Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk) af Jim Downs

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

(Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Forfatter: Jim Downs

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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.

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Forlag Harvard University Press
Forfatter Jim Downs
Type Bog
Format Paperback / softback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato 10-10-2023
Første udgivelsesår 2023
Illustrationer 2 photos
Originalsprog United States
Sideantal 272
Indbinding Paperback / softback
Forlag Harvard University Press
Sideoplysninger 272 pages, 2 photos
Mål 140 x 210 x 21
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9780674293861