Malpractice: Jim Downs Explores the Forgotten History of Modern Medicine

In his book “Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine,” Historian Jim Downs traces the study of the incidence, distribution, and possible control of disease across continents, the oceans and time. The result is a re-examination of what we thought we knew about modern medicine.

In this eighth collaboration between WRGC and the Georgia College Center for Georgia Studies, we present a conversation between Jim Downs and Georgia College Historian Mark Huddle about Downs’s book Maladies of Empire.

Jim Downs is Gilder Lehrman NEH Chair of Civil War Era Studies and History

at Gettysburg College.

Mark Huddle is the Director of the Center for Georgia Studies at Georgia College.

You can hear this conversation on WRGC's soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/wrgc/cgs-maladies-of-empire-jim-downs-prgm-online