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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The Sanitary Commission of the United States Army: a Succinet Narrative of Its Works and Purposes
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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“The” Sanitary Commission of the United States Army: a Succinct Narrative of Its Works and Purposes
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Sanitary Commission of the United States Army
Author: United States Sanitary CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Military hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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The Sanitary Commission of the United States Army
Author: United States Sanitary CommissionPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army (-United States Army, Army Medical Library; -National Library of Medicine).
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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British museum Catalogue of Printed books Virgilius Maro (Publius)
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The Living Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Special Bibliography - US Army Military History Research Collection
Author: US Army Military History Research CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Maladies of Empire
Author: Jim DownsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674249887
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease. Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of nonconsenting subjects—conscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire. Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by surveilling Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission. The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics. Boldly argued and eye-opening, Maladies of Empire gives a full account of the true price of medical progress.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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