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By Ellie Cawthorne\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 17 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Jim Downs speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about his book Maladies of Empire<\/i>, which reveals how the conditions created by colonialism, war and slavery affected the study of disease and its spread in the 18th and 19th centuries.<\/p>\n\n

Jim Downs is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Slavery, Imperialism, and War Transformed Medicine<\/i> (Belknap Press, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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