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Medical revolutionaries : the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue

Title
Medical revolutionaries : the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue / Karol K. Weaver.
Author
Weaver, Karol K. (Karol Kimberlee)
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

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Description
xii, 163 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Call Number
Sc E 06-1242
ISBN
  • 0252030850 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252073215 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005035178
  • 9780252030857
  • 9780252073212
OCLC
62430871
Author
Weaver, Karol K. (Karol Kimberlee)
Title
Medical revolutionaries : the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue / Karol K. Weaver.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and index.
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9780252030857
9780252073212
Research Call Number
Sc E 06-1242
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