Title Medical revolutionaries : the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue / Karol K. Weaver.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	xii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
	Medicine language
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-156) and index.
Contents	Saint Domingue : life in the torrid zone -- European medicine in the torrid zone -- Enslaved healers on the plantation -- Enslaved herbalists -- Makandal and the medical care of animals : the veterinarians who inspired the Haitian revolution -- Magnetism in eighteenth-century Saint Domingue : the case of the enslaved magnetists and their fight for freedom -- The transformative power of the Kaperlata -- Conclusion : the influence of the enslaved healers, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Subject	Medicine -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century.
	Medicine.
	Haiti.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Healing -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century.
	Healing.
	Enslaved persons -- Medicine -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century.
	Enslaved persons.
	Black people -- Medicine -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century.
	Black people -- Medicine.
	Black people.
ISBN	0252030850 cloth alkaline paper
	9780252030857 cloth alkaline paper
	0252073215 paperback alkaline paper
	9780252073212 paperback alkaline paper
Standard No.	9780252030857
	9780252073212