5 Florence Nightingale: The Unrecognized Epidemiologist of the Crimean War and India

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Crowded Places: Slave Ships, Prisons, and Fresh Air 9
5. 2 Missing Persons: The Decline of Contagion Theory and the Rise of Epidemiology 33
6. 3 Epidemiology’s Voice: Tracing Fever in Cape Verde 50
7. 4 Recordkeeping: Epidemiological Practices in the British Empire 68
8. 5 Florence Nightingale: The Unrecognized Epidemiologist of the Crimean War and India 88
9. 6 From Benevolence to Bigotry: The US Sanitary Commission’s Conflicted Mission 114
10. 7 “Sing, Unburied, Sing”: Slavery, the Confederacy, and the Practice of Epidemiology 137
11. 8 Narrative Maps: Black Troops, Muslim Pilgrims, and the Cholera Pandemic of 1865–1866 167
12. Conclusion: The Roots of Epidemiology 195
13. Notes 203
14. Acknowledgments 245
15. Index 253