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- Artikelzustand
- ISBN-13
- 9780674971721
- Book Title
- Maladies of Empire
- ISBN
- 9780674971721
- Subject Area
- Medical, Social Science, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Maladies of Empire : How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- Slavery, Public Health, Epidemiology, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 20 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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 price of medical progress.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674971728
ISBN-13
9780674971721
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5050083172
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Maladies of Empire : How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Slavery, Public Health, Epidemiology, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical, Social Science, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2020-018202
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Maladies of Empire leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for the people left out of traditional medical histories, some unforgettable stories, and many thought-provoking questions., Downs makes a strong argument that epidemiology (and much else in modern medicine) stemmed from close observation of non-European populations under conditions of European oppression: in slave ships, on colonial plantations, and in armies., Demonstrates the beneFits of scholarship that crosses national and imperial historiographies, as well as the value of recovering aspects of lives only glimpsed in the archives. Downs's engaging prose and clear argumentation make this book accessible to an undergraduate audience, as well as informative to senior scholars., An impactful and innovative effort by the author to apply techniques used in critical race and ethnicity, colonial history, and black feminist critical theory to re-center historical medical narratives...will hopefully stir new conversations in the methodology and theory of medical history and narrative-forming., Applying the study of history to medicine can often be uncomfortable, so I had some trepidation as I picked up Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs. The title certainly grabbed my attention; did these events really transform medicine? After reading this provocative book, it is hard to argue otherwise., Exposes how doctors with few clues made concerted efforts to track and understand deadly epidemics at a time when the colonialist enterprise was aggressively remaking the world...[Downs] fleshes out a crucial part of a larger tapestry to help explain the onset of racial segregation in the United States. The people whose experiences he tries to recover 'appear only as fragments' in the historical record but they impart a crucial dimension that remains utterly germane to the present., Downs has now given global context to nineteenth-century advances in medicine and public health, beyond the dominant histories rooted in Western Europe and the ancient world. In Maladies of Empire , he centers slave ships, people living in colonized countries, prisoners, and wars in the narrative of medical discovery, at the foundation of epidemiology...He recovers lost and untold stories and makes visible things that need to be seen., A compelling read for everyone interested in the connection between slavery, colonialism, and war and the advancement of medical knowledge., Using historiographical techniques developed by Black feminist scholars, Downs' well-crafted narrative shifts the focus from the actions of individual physicians to the scaffolding that their research was built upon. It carries us from the crowded conditions on slave ships and prisons to filthy battlefields to plantations, reminding us that the data physicians used to develop theories of disease transmission, develop medical procedures, and recommend public health measures was built on a scaffolding of unacknowledged bodies belonging to soldiers, colonial subjects, and enslaved persons., For those of us looking warily toward future epidemics, this book draws our attention to oft-forgotten sources of medical knowledge...Deserves to be read, particularly now. Few will question the salvational power that epidemiology will likely have in the years to come., Maladies of Empire puts the public health of the U.S. early republic, antebellum, and Civil War eras into global context with that of the British Empire in a transoceanic discourse about bio-power, race, and medical authority., A more compelling read than any textbook, Maladies of Empire illuminates the main characters of the complex and ethically fraught story of public health's origins., This book shows how epidemiological practices originated from observation, treatment, and disease prevention among captive populations produced by slavery, colonialism, war, and the resulting population migrations that followed all of these...A compelling read., In this meticulously researched and beautifully written work, Jim Downs transforms our understanding of the relationship between the history of medicine, colonialism, and the institution of slavery. Maladies of Empire illuminates the crucial connections between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century comprehension of disease and the evidence gathered from captive Africans, enslaved plantation workers, and soldiers throughout the Atlantic world. Charting the origins of modern epidemiology in the inequities of forced labor, Downs makes foundational contributions to the histories of medicine, colonialism, and slavery. Everyone interested in the connections between race and disease should read Maladies of Empire ., Maladies of Empire shifts the site of medical knowledge from European cities to the international slave trade, colonial lands and wars, and the resulting movement of populations. This vivid and brilliant analysis of these critical sites fundamentally changes our views of the origins of epidemiology and the transnational flow of medical knowledge about disease transmission. This excellent work will surely become required reading for historians of medicine, disease, and empire., Maladies of Empire is a major contribution to the ongoing investigation of the impact of slavery and colonialism on the modern world. Jim Downs shows how studies of exploited groups helped scientists understand the spread and treatment of infectious disease. At a time when epidemiologists are rightly lauded for their work in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, Downs calls on us not to forget the role, without their consent, of the long forgotten enslaved, colonized, and imprisoned in the development and global dissemination of medical knowledge., An engaging narrative that provides valuable insights into the emergence of modern medicine and science...By elucidating the origins of epidemiology, Maladies of Empire allows public health officials to question whether their methods have any lingering traces of unequal power and control while affording scholars the opportunity to consider the ways in which health and medicine intersected with slavery, empire, and war in the past., Downs' analysis is innovative and his argument is convincing, buttressed by the wealth of physicians' reports, correspondence, and medical journals...The book is a fantastic resource for students of medicine and history at any level, as the writing is clear and accessible, and for scholars interested in the global history of disease, especially in the era of COVID-19., Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book., A powerful account of the intertwined histories of medicine and empire, within a truly global framework. Simultaneously intimate and sweeping, Maladies of Empire reveals the human side of the development of epidemiology. Inverting the traditional focus on medical men, Downs puts soldiers, prisoners, and enslaved people at the heart of the rise of scientific medicine, providing a compelling account of how our modern-day tools of epidemiology were shaped by war, slavery, and colonialism.
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Dewey Decimal
614.4
Lc Classification Number
Ra649.D68 2021
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