Flavio Casoy

Apr 6, 2023 | meridian.allenpress.com | Michael Farrell |Jack Drescher |Alan Schwartz |Flavio Casoy

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine Harvard University Press, 2021 Applying the study of history to medicine can often be uncomfortable, so I had some trepidation as I picked up Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs. The title certainly grabbed my attention; did these events really transform medicine? After reading this provocative book, it is hard to argue otherwise.