Secret cures of slaves : people, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world /

Secret cures of slaves : people, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world /

In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiebinger, Londa L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Human experimentation in medicine > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Slaves > Health and hygiene > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Blacks > Medicine > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Traditional medicine > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Tropical medicine > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Human Experimentation > history.
Medicine, Traditional > history.
Slavery > history.
History, 18th Century.
Tropical Medicine > history.
African Continental Ancestry Group.
Blacks > Medicine.
Human experimentation in medicine.
Slaves > Health and hygiene.
Traditional medicine.
Tropical medicine.
Sklave.
Tropenmedizin.
West Indies.
Westindien.
History.

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