Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Medical Encounters, 1500-1850

Kananoja, Kalle

Cambridge University Press

12/2022

272

Mole

Inglês

9781108811781

15 a 20 dias

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1. Healing (and harming) specialists: plural medicine in Angola and Kongo; 2. Cross-Cultural experiments: the materiality of medicine in West-Central Africa; 3. 'Much better suited than we are, as regards their health care': African botanical expertise and medical knowledge on the Gold Coast; 4. Remedies on the spot: science, agricultural development and botanical knowledge in Sierra Leone ca. 1800; 5. Healers, hospitals and medicines: European medical practice in Angola; 6. Treating their symptoms: limits of humoural medicine; 7. Migrations: medical geography in the Southern Atlantic; 8. Conclusion.
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history of medicine; Atlantic world; Africa; healing; healers; cultural encounters; eary modern period