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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.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Human experimentation in medicine -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Human experimentation in medicine.
West Indies.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Enslaved persons -- Health and hygiene.
Enslaved persons.
Black people -- Medicine -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Black people -- Medicine.
Black people.
Traditional medicine -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Traditional medicine.
Tropical medicine -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Tropical medicine.
West Indies.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Schiebinger, Londa L. Secret cures of slaves. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017 9781503600171 (DLC) 2016049163
ISBN 9781503602984 (electronic book)
1503602982 (electronic book)
9781503600171 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1503600173 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781503602915 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1503602915 (paperback ; alkaline paper)