Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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 US Sanitary Commission's Conflicted Mission -- 7. "Sing, Unburied, Sing": Slavery, the Confederacy, and the Practice of Epidemiology
8. Narrative Maps: Black Troops, Muslim Pilgrims, and the Cholera Pandemic of 1865-1866 -- Conclusion: The Roots of Epidemiology -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary:
"Standard histories of medicine celebrate brilliant Westerners such as Florence Nightingale and John Snow. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs turns our focus to another key group of contributors: the subjugated peoples-forced into close quarters by enslavement and empire-whose bodies were the experimental matter on which medical progress relied"-- Provided by publisher
