How Slavery Imperialism and War Transformed Medicine. Standard histories of medicine celebrate brilliant Westerners such as Florence Nightingale and John Snow. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs turns our focus to another key group of contributors the subjugated peoplesforced into close quarters ...

How Slavery Imperialism and War Transformed Medicine. Standard histories of medicine celebrate brilliant Westerners such as Florence Nightingale and John Snow. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs turns our focus to another key group of contributors the subjugated peoplesforced into close quarters by enslavement and empirewhose bodies were the experimental matter on which medical progress relied.