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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weaver, Karol K. (Karol Kimberlee)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Medicine > Haiti > History > 18th century.
Healing > Haiti > History > 18th century.
Enslaved persons > Medicine > Haiti > History > 18th century.
Black people > Medicine > Haiti > History > 18th century.
Delivery of Health Care > history.
Black People > history.
History, 18th Century.
Medicine, Traditional > history.
Politics.
Social Problems > history.
Haiti.
Physical Description:xii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.