Maladies of Empire

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Maladies of Empire is written by Jim Downs and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674249887 (ISBN 10) and 9780674249882 (ISBN 13).

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.