How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology
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Imeli cawthorne is the author of a new book, maladies of empire. In it he explains how colonialism, slavery and war transformed medicine. He says doctors began to gain better understandings of epidemiology by looking at how infectious spreads across large populations. And so when anepidemic broke out in london, these doctors were often caught up in the moment - but ultimately they dealing with enormous amounts of morbidity and mortality.
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