How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology
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Is There a Western Medical Practitioner Learning From Enslaved People?
Slavery creates buracracy, that allows them to keep records and gain a bird's eye view. That allows them to develop a broader, empirical way of understanding infectious disease. I am interested in thinking more about how does epidemilogical thinking develop. And that science is not, cannot be divorced from the social arrangements, the built environments that slavery colonialism develop.
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