Maladies of Empire: How Slavery, Imperialism, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs
Maladies of Empire: How Slavery, Imperialism, and War Transformed Medicine
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Jim Downs
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Maladies of Empire: How Slavery, Imperialism, and War Transformed Medicine

Jim Downs

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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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 th...

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