Title The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic / Pablo F. Gómez

Published Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Arrivals -- Landscapes -- Movement -- Sensual knowledge -- Social pharmacopeias -- Astounding creativity -- Truth and the experiential Summary "Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body, healing, and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gómez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as justified by how it relates to well known frameworks for the study of science and medicine"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-266) and index Notes Description based on print version record; title from digital title page (viewed August 10, 2023) Subject Traditional medicine -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th century Healing -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th century Experiential learning -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th century Free Black people -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th century Medicine -- History -- 17th century. Active learning. Medicine, Traditional -- history History, 17th Century Problem-Based Learning MEDICAL -- Pharmacology. Medicine Experiential learning Free Black people Healing Traditional medicine Schwarze Volksmedizin SUBJECT Caribbean Region Subject Caribbean Area Karibik Caribbean region. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1469630885 9781469630885 1469630893 9781469630892

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