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Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2021.
ISBN
9780674249905
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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
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
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