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.


Format Inbunden Omfång 272 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2021-09-07 ISBN 9780674971721