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Medical encounters : knowledge and identity in early American literatures / Kelly Wisecup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wisecup, Kelly, 1981- author.
- Series:
- Native Americans of the Northeast.
- Native Americans of the Northeast
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--United States--History.
- Medicine.
- Medicine in literature--United States.
- Medicine in literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The conquest and colonization of the Americas resulted in all kinds of exchanges, including the transmission of diseases and the sharing of medicines to treat them.In this book, Kelly Wisecup examines how European settlers, Native Americans, and New World Africans communicated medical knowledge in early America, and how the colonists represented.
- Contents:
- Epidemic, encounter, and colonial promotion in Virginia
- Healing, medical authority, and moral degeneration in New England
- African testimony, dangerous communications, and colonial medical knowledge in the 1721 Boston
- Inoculation controversy
- Obeah, slave revolt, and plantation medicine in the British West Indies
- Drunkenness, syphilis, and history in Samson Occom's medical writing.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-288-7
- OCLC:
- 872122161
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