Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834

Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834

Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity

Senior, Emily

Cambridge University Press

10/2020

303

Mole

Inglês

9781108404198

15 a 20 dias

410

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Communicating disease: literature and medicine in the Atlantic World; Part I. Health, Geography and Aesthetics: 1. 'What new forms of death': the poetics of disease and cure; 2. The diagnostics of description: medical topography and the colonial picturesque; Part II. Colonial Bodies: 3. Skin, textuality and colonial feeling; 4. 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World': White West Indians and Atlantic medical knowledge; Part III. Revolution and Abolition: 5. The 'intimate union of medicine and magic': Obeah, revolution and colonial modernity; Afterword: colonial modernities and after abolition.