Maladies of Empire

Autor*innen

• Jim Downs

Parameter

• 320 Seiten
• 12 Lesestunden

• Geschichte
• Gesundheit
• Medizin & Gesundheit
• Sachliteratur
• Wissenschaft

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"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"-- Provided by publisher

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Einband: Hardcover