Jim Downs

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...