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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

Jim Downs

272 pages hardcover 2021

4 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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A sweeping, global history of how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of Western medicine.We think we know the stories of medical progress. We know that during the 1854 London cholera outbreak, John Snow traced the origin of th...

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