MALADIES OF EMPIRE : How Colonialism Slavery And War Transformed Medicine (Record no. 186783)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780674274686 |
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| Terms of availability | Purchased |
| Note | Prism Books,Kadavanthra |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
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| Classification number | 614.4 |
| Item number | DOW/MA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Downs,Jim |
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| Title | MALADIES OF EMPIRE : How Colonialism Slavery And War Transformed Medicine |
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| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Belknap Harvard |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2021/01/01 |
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| Size of unit | 262 |
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| General note | A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease. Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of nonconsenting subjects—conscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire.Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships.Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by surveilling Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission. The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics. Boldly argued and eye-opening, Maladies of Empire gives a full account of the true rate of medical progress.<br/> |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Slaves--Health and hygiene |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | War--Medical aspects |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Imperialism and science |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Epidemiology -- History. |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | Ernakulam Public Library | Ernakulam Public Library | General Stacks | 2022-03-26 | Purchased | 699.00 | KC-21-CRB-3698,2022/03/24 | 4 | 1 | 614.4 DOW/MA | E197321 | 2022-07-11 | 2022-07-11 | 2022-03-26 | Lending |