TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schiebinger, Londa L.,
TI  - Secret cures of slaves: people, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world 
SN  - 9781503600171
AV  - R853.H8 S347 2017
U1  - 610.72/408996073 23
PY  - 2017///
KW  - Human experimentation in medicine
KW  - West Indies
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Tropical medicine
KW  - Human Experimentation
KW  - history
KW  - Medicine, Traditional
KW  - African Continental Ancestry Group
KW  - Enslavement
KW  - History, 18th Century
KW  - Tropical Medicine
KW  - 15.85 history of America
KW  - bcl
KW  - fast
KW  - Sklave
KW  - gnd
KW  - Tropenmedizin
KW  - Westindien
KW  - Caribbean region
KW  - gtt
KW  - Historical Works
KW  - Maps
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index; The rise of scientific medicine -- Experiments with the Negro Dr's materia medica -- Medical ethics -- Exploitive experiments -- The colonial crucible : debates over slavery -- Conclusion : the circulation of knowledge
N2  - 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 the Atlantic World, exploring the circulation of people, disease, plants, and knowledge between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. 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 early 1800s, when debates raged about banning the slave trade and, eventually, slavery itself. Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging from the collision of peoples on newly established, often poorly supplied, plantations. But not all knowledge was equal. 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. This book analyzes how and why specific knowledges were blocked, discredited, or held secret
ER  -