Medical revolutionaries
Subtitle: the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue
By: Karol K. Weaver.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780252030857; 9780252073212
Subjects: Medicine -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century.; Healing -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century.; Slaves -- Medicine -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century.; Blacks -- Medicine -- Haiti -- History -- 18th century.; Delivery of Health Care -- history -- Haiti.; Medicine, Traditional -- history -- Haiti.; Social Problems -- history -- Haiti.; Politics -- Haiti.; African Continental Ancestry Group -- history -- Haiti.; History, 18th Century -- Haiti.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Saint Domingue : life in the torrid zone; title: European medicine in the torrid zone; title: Enslaved healers on the plantation; title: Enslaved herbalists; title: Makandal and the medical care of animals : the veterinarians who inspired the Haitian revolution; title: Magnetism in eighteenth-century Saint Domingue : the case of the enslaved magnetists and their fight for freedom; title: The transformative power of the Kaperlata; title: Conclusion : the influence of the enslaved healers; title: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.