How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology
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Scurvy and the Slavery of the World
The book begins with the international slave trade and its looking at slave ships. Doctors were constantly deployed on these ships, often to monitor the health care of the crew. They placed tons of enslaved africans at the bottom of ships. This created a particularly new environment. And so they begin taking copious notes.
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