Colonial Medicine

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge - a tradition that continues today within some black populations.

Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Driven by surprising insights and fast-paced storytelling, The Mosquito is the extraordinary untold story of the mosquito’s reign through human history.

During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history, Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death - by making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox. "Inoculation" led to vaccination, one of the most profound medical discoveries in history.

Una granja aislada del mundo por una inundación, una esposa a punto de dar a luz, un vecino con un cuchillo en la garganta y una novia fugitiva. ¿Debe el sargento Hardy cabalgar a través de la inundación hasta la ciudad en busca de ayuda, o debe quedarse y proteger a las personas refugiadas en su granja? En medio de la crecida de las aguas, Hardy y su esposa Mette, embarazada, dan cobijo a otras dos familias en su granja de caballos. Pero cuando Frank encuentra su propio cuchillo de trinchar en la garganta de otra persona, y no puede pedir ayuda a la policía, debe aislar al asesino ...

Revolutionary Surgeons offers an integrated picture of surgeons as political and military leaders of the American Revolution.