| Description |
1 online resource (296 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: "A Beautiful Spot for a Grave": Prophylaxis and Prevention in the Slave-Trade Contact Zones -- TWO: The Blood of Thousands: Slave Traders and the Fight against Disease in the Age of Abolition -- THREE: Cruising for Slaves and Boating up Rivers: Anti-Slave Trade Patrols and the Fight against Disease across the Atlantic -- FOUR: "Such an Asylum of Wretchedness": Anti-Slave Trade Reception Centers, Hospitals, and Cemeteries -- FIVE: A Shared Struggle: Cooperation, Learning, and Knowledge Exchange in the Atlantic World -- CLOSING REMARKS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical geography -- History -- 19th century.
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Slave trade -- History -- 19th century.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th century. |
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Medical geography |
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Slave trade |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barcia, Manuel. Yellow Demon of Fever : Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2020 9780300215854 |
| ISBN |
9780300252019 (electronic bk.) |
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0300252013 (electronic bk.) |
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0300215851 |
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9780300215854 |
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