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Author:

Weaver, Karol K. (Karol Kimberlee) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002134637

Title:

Medical revolutionaries : the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue / Karol K. Weaver.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Medicine--Haiti--History--18th century.
Healing--Haiti--History--18th century.
Slaves--History--Haiti--History--18th century.
Blacks--History--Haiti--History--18th century.
Delivery of Health Care--history.
African Continental Ancestry Group--history.
History, 18th Century.
Medicine, Traditional--history.
Politics.
Social Problems--history.
Haiti.
Heiler.
Sklave.
Volksmedizin.
Haiti.
Schwarze.
Volksmedizin.
Sklave.
Heiler.
Haiti.
Schwarze.
Geschichte 1700-1800
Geschichte 1700-1800

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-156) and index.

Contents:

Saint Domingue : life in the torrid zone -- European medicine in the torrid zone -- Enslaved healers on the plantation -- Enslaved herbalists -- Makandal and the medical care of animals : the veterinarians who inspired the Haitian revolution -- Magnetism in eighteenth-century Saint Domingue : the case of the enslaved magnetists and their fight for freedom -- The transformative power of the Kaperlata -- Conclusion : the influence of the enslaved healers, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

ISBN:

9780252073212
0252073215
9780252030857
0252030850

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62430871

LCCN:

2005035178

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)