Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1503602915 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. Highlighting the violence and fear endemic to colonial struggles, Schiebinger explores aspects of African medicine that were not put to the test, such as Obeah and vodou. 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. But not all knowledge was equal. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in the Atlantic World, exploring the circulation of people, disease, plants, and knowledge between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging from the collision of peoples on newly established, often poorly supplied, plantations. She traces the development of a colonial medical complex from the 1760s, when a robust experimental culture emerged in the British and French West Indies, to the earl
Her work offers a deep dive into how the Atlantic World emerged as a crucible for medical innovation as well as pressing ethical questions." (François Regourd Université Paris Nanterre)"Racism is the belief that certain people are not fully human, and that infamously opportunistic opinion is evident whenever some people are selected to be unwilling subjects of medical experimentation, as Londa Schiebinger makes clear in her important new study." (Joyce E. "Londa Schiebinger's insightful book provides us with a conceptual grid for understanding the production and distribution of medical knowledge and the ethics of experimentation, opening up many fertile new avenues for research." (Mark Harrison University of Oxford)"Engaging unique sources from both the English and French worlds, Londa Schiebinger untangles the complex relationships between European and local physicians, healers, plants, and slavery. Chaplin Harvard University)"In this
She is the author of the award-winning Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004), among many other works. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University. . Londa Schiebinger is the John L