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Maladies of Empire – How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine de Jim Downs

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

Autor Jim Downs
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2023
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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ISBN-13: 9780674293861
ISBN-10: 067429386X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 141 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Harvard University Press

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A sweeping, global history of how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of Western medicine.

We think we know the stories of medical progress. We know that during the 1854 London cholera outbreak, John Snow traced the origin of the epidemic to a water pump, which led to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale's contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. But these histories leave out key sources of what we now know about disease causation.

In this paradigm-shifting book, Jim Downs shows us how progress in the study of infectious disease resulted from the rise of the international slave trade, the expansion of colonialism, the Crimean War, the US Civil War, and Muslim migration. Downs uncovers how medical advances attributed to the genius of Western science were often due to how systematic oppression created built environments--plantations, slave ships, and battlefields--that enabled physicians to visualize and report both the cause and the spread of disease. Military physicians learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by observing Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. And doctors in the American South developed inoculations by harvesting vaccine matter on black children's bodies.

Boldly argued and meticulously researched, Maladies of Empire reveals the fullest account of the true price of medical progress.