How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
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Köp båda 2 för 434 krFor those of us looking warily toward future epidemics, this book draws our attention to oft-forgotten sources of medical knowledgeDeserves to be read, particularly now. Few will question the salvational power that epidemiology will likely have in the years to come. -- Suman Seth * Science * 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 epidemiologyHe recovers lost and untold stories and makes visible things that need to be seen. -- Mary T. Bassett * Nature * [A] searching reappraisal of the origins of epidemiologyThose who lead epidemiology and public health today should read Maladies of Empire. They might wish to reflect on the origins of their discipline, the histories they choose to ignore, the myths they prefer to propagate. And they might wish to consider the debt theyweowe to those who were, and in some cases still are, abused, mistreated, and manipulated in the name of public health. -- Richard Horton * The Lancet * Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book. -- Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of <i>Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology</i> Maladies of Empire provides an illuminating, painstaking, yet engaging interrogation of original records and sources, filling critical gaps in the development of epidemiology. Indispensable and compelling. -- Harriet A. Washington, author of the National Book Critics Circle Awardwinning <i>Medical Apartheid</i> 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. -- John Galbraith Simmons * Los Angeles Review of Books * Connects imperialism, enslavement, and warfare to argue that it is at the intersection of these processes that we can trace the beginnings of modern epidemiological thinkingNot only does such a narrative shed light on the violent foundations of disease control interventions and public health initiatives, but it also implores us to address their inequities in the present. At a time when low-income and middle-income countries struggle for access to vaccines in the COVID-19 pandemic, such an endeavor could not be more urgent. -- Raghav Kishore * The Lancet * A more compelling read than any textbook, Maladies of Empire illuminates the main characters of the complex and ethically fraught story of public healths origins. -- Kenneth W. Lin * Family Medicine * 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. -- Michael L. Farrell * Journal of Medical Regulation * If you are an aficionado of medical history, and of writers who try to set the record straight, this is a book for you. -- Patrick Skerrett * Stat * Maladies of Empire 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. Downss engaging prose and clear argumentation make this book acce
Jim Downs is Gilder LehrmanNational Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is the editor of Civil War History and author and editor of six other books, including Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.