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Maladies of Empire

How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

Jim Downs

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Publication Date: 09/07/2021

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Jim Downs is Gilder Lehrman–National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is the editor of Civil War History and author and editor of six other books, including Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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