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02505aam a2200397 i 4500 001 62AEE8D211FC11EC8B377C2451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210910010020 008 200822s2021 mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020018202 020 $a 0674971728 020 $a 9780674971721 035 $a (OCoLC)1145919534 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 614.4 $2 23 100 1 $a Downs, Jim, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Maladies of empire : $b how colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine / $c Jim Downs. 246 30 $a How colonialism, slavery, and war transformed medicine 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 262 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Epidemiology $x History. 650 0 $a Slaves $x Health and hygiene. 650 0 $a Imperialism and science. 650 0 $a War $x Medical aspects. 941 $a 5 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702023953.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20231202011258.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20220601010900.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20211124010244.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210910010157.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=62AEE8D211FC11EC8B377C2451ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search