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

By Jim Downs
Narrated by: David Colacci
Unabridged — 9 hours, 2 minutes
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By Jim Downs
Narrated by: David Colacci
Unabridged — 9 hours, 2 minutes

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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 transformed hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge.



Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that ...