How slavery & empire shaped epidemiology
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The History of Epidemiology
The tools that we are using to day to control the epidemic began on slave ships, on colonial plantations as a part of imperial projects. The history of science is absolutely dependent upon the subjugation of various people. It's those who suffered that helped make these diseases visible and these theories workable. That was jim downs his book, maladies of empire how colonialism, slavery and war transformed medicine.
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