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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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Main Author: Schiebinger, Londa L., (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Subjects and Genres:
18th century.
1700-1799
Human experimentation in medicine > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Black people > Medicine > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Traditional medicine > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Tropical medicine > West Indies > History > 18th century.
Black people > Medicine.
Human experimentation in medicine.
Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene.
Traditional medicine.
Tropical medicine.
History.
Black people.
Enslaved persons.
Human Experimentation > history.
Enslaved Persons > history.
Black People > history.
Medicine, Traditional > history.
Tropical Medicine > history.
West Indies.
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Call Number: R853.H8 S347 2017
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