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Special Episode: On the Origin of Epidemiology

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Slave Trade and Epidemiology

In your book, you explore how colonialism, slavery and war during the period of th 17 fifties through the 18 sixties led to this huge shift in medicine. People began to study populations rather than individuals, essentially kicking off the field of epidemiology. Can you explain what it is about this period that led to this revolution in right? So the keyword there would be population. There have also been scores of doctors throughout the early modern period, and even before then, that also studied populations.

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