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Author Schiebinger, Londa L., author

Title Secret cures of slaves : people, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Londa Schiebinger
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The rise of scientific medicine -- Experiments with the Negro Dr's materia medica -- Medical ethics -- Exploitive experiments -- The colonial crucible : debates over slavery -- Conclusion : the circulation of knowledge
Summary "This book explores the history of drug development and testing in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, looking especially at whether slaves were exploited in human medical experiments at the time."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (DeGruyter, viewed on February 9, 2023)
Subject Human experimentation in medicine -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century
Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century
Black people -- Medicine -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century
Traditional medicine -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century
Tropical medicine -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century
Human Experimentation -- history
Enslaved Persons -- history
Black People -- history
Medicine, Traditional -- history
Tropical Medicine -- history
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Black people -- Medicine
Human experimentation in medicine
Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene
Traditional medicine
Tropical medicine
West Indies
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016051270
ISBN 9781503602984
1503602982