- Introduction
- 1. Crowded Places: Slave Ships, Prisons, and Fresh Air
- 2. Missing Persons: The Decline of Contagion Theory and the Rise of Epidemiology
- 3. Epidemiology’s Voice: Tracing Fever in Cape Verde
- 4. Recordkeeping: Epidemiological Practices in the British Empire
- 5. Florence Nightingale: The Unrecognized Epidemiologist of the Crimean War and India
- 6. From Benevolence to Bigotry: The U.S. Sanitary Commission’s Conflicted Mission
- 7. “Sing, Unburied, Sing”: Slavery, the Confederacy, and the Practice of Epidemiology
- 8. Narrative Maps: Black Troops, Muslims Pilgrims, and the Cholera Pandemic of 1865–1866
- Conclusion: The Roots of Epidemiology
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Maladies of Empire
How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
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