Maladies of Empire

Autor*innen

• Jim Downs

Parameter

• 272 Seiten
• 10 Lesestunden

• Gesundheit
• Historisches Thema
• Medizin & Gesundheit
• Sachbücher
• Wissenschaft

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Einband: Paperback