Maladies of Empire"Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game changing book." Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology "An eye popping study of the history of infectious diseases, how they spread, and especially how they have been thwarted by experimentation on the bodies of soldiers, slaves, and colonial