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Medical encounters : knowledge and identity in early American literatures

Title
Medical encounters : knowledge and identity in early American literatures / Kelly Wisecup.
Author
Wisecup, Kelly, 1981-
Publication
Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]

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Description
xi, 259 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Native Americans of the Northeast
Uniform Title
Native Americans of the Northeast.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-254) and index.
Contents
Epidemic, encounter, and colonial promotion in Virginia -- Healing, medical authority, and moral degeneration in New England -- African testimony, dangerous communications, and colonial medical knowledge in the 1721 Boston -- Inoculation controversy -- Obeah, slave revolt, and plantation medicine in the British West Indies -- Drunkenness, syphilis, and history in Samson Occom's medical writing.
Call Number
Sc E 14-549
ISBN
  • 9781625340566 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1625340567 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781625340573 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1625340575 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2013028727
  • 40022924569
OCLC
844729415
Author
Wisecup, Kelly, 1981- author.
Title
Medical encounters : knowledge and identity in early American literatures / Kelly Wisecup.
Publisher
Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Native Americans of the Northeast
Native Americans of the Northeast.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-254) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40022924569
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-549
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