Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Native Americans of the Northeast |
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Native Americans of the Northeast.
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Contents |
Epidemic, encounter, and colonial promotion in Virginia -- Healing, medical authority, and moral degeneration in New England -- African testimony, dangerous communications, and colonial medical knowledge in the 1721 Boston -- Inoculation controversy -- Obeah, slave revolt, and plantation medicine in the British West Indies -- Drunkenness, syphilis, and history in Samson Occom's medical writing |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine -- United States -- History.
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History of Medicine.
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Indians, North American -- history.
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Medicine in Literature.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1613762887 (electronic bk.) |
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1625340575 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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9781613762882 (electronic bk.) |
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9781625340573 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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