Maladies of empire: how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine
Auteur :
Downs, Jim
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674293861
Date de publication :
10 oct. 2023
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,0 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
318 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.