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Assembling the tropics : science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700 / Hugh Cagle, University of Utah.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) RC961 .C17 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cagle, Hugh, author.
- Series:
- Studies in comparative world history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tropical medicine--History.
- Tropical medicine.
- Public health--Colonies--Portugal.
- Public health.
- Science--Portugal--History.
- Science.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Reading between the Lines
- The Death of Dr. Vogel
- Empires and Their Tropics
- Cultures of Inquiry and the Location of Expertise
- On Method and Terminology
- pt. I THE COAST OF AFRICA, I45O-I55O
- 2. Dead Reckonings
- Beyond the Senegal
- Points of Orientation
- Hippocratic Pathologies
- Fevers and Febrifuges in the Early Atlantic
- Cosmographic Inscriptions and Intertropical Possibilities
- pt. II THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD, 1500-1600
- 3. Itineraries and Inventories
- No Bells to Honor the Dead
- Fluvial Disarray, Medical Emergency
- Partial Perspectives
- Cartographies of Natural History
- Epistemologies of the Pepper Trade
- 4. Drug Traffic
- Lost in Translation
- Language, Novelty, and Global Order
- Empiricism by the Book
- Global Trade and the Limits of Experience
- The Politics of Depiction
- 5. Facts and Fictions
- A Temple on the Mainland
- Rumor Has It
- Agnotology and a Subversive Leaf
- India House
- Where the Truth Lies
- pt. III THE PORTUGUESE ATLANTIC, 1550-1700
- 6. Moral Hazards
- The Ambivalence of Wonder
- Disease and Dissent
- Company Science
- Shamanism
- Patterns of Inquiry
- 7. Split Decisions
- The View from Lisbon
- Fever and an Atlantic Epidemiology
- Geographies of Medical Authority
- Cosmopolitanism, Native Secrets, and the Planter-Naturalist
- Atlantic Itineraries, Imperial Transformations
- 8. Fault Lines
- The Accidental Naturalist
- Coconut Palms and Global Measures
- Fever, Print Culture, and Reform
- Intertropical Contagion
- Assembling the Tropics
- 9. Epilogue
- Alchemy, Transplantations, and the Language of Empire
- Relocating Expertise in the Early Modern World.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1316647420
- 9781316647424
- OCLC:
- 1125270166
- Publisher Number:
- 99989754175
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