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

  • Gómez, Pablo F.
Date:
[2017]
  • Books

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Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

xix, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes

Cover title.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Arrivals -- Landscapes -- Movement -- Sensual knowledge -- Social pharmacopeias -- Astounding creativity -- Truth and the experiential -- Conclusion.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BUC.71.AA6
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781469630861
  • 1469630869
  • 9781469630878
  • 1469630877