Medical revolutionaries : the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue / Karol K. Weaver.
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TextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.Description: xii, 163 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0252030850 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780252030857 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252073215 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780252073212 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Medicine -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century
- Healing -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century
- Slaves -- Medicine -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century
- Blacks -- Medicine -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century
- Delivery of Health Care -- history -- Haiti
- African Continental Ancestry Group -- history -- Haiti
- History, 18th Century -- Haiti
- Medicine, Traditional -- history -- Haiti
- Politics -- Haiti
- Social Problems -- history -- Haiti
- 2006 L-107
- WZ 70 DH2
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Library Company of Philadelphia Stacks | REF Uy 9 IV A3909.O | Available | 249021 | ||
| Book | Library Company of Philadelphia | Uy 9 IV (2)A3909.O | Available | 328202 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and index.
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.
Gift of the publisher (copy 1). Gift of the author (copy 2).