The yellow demon of fever : fighting disease in the nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade / Manuel Barcia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barcia Paz, Manuel, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]

Summary:

A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One. “A Beautiful Spot for a Grave”: Prophylaxis and Prevention in the Slave-Trade Contact Zones

Two. The Blood of Thousands: Slave Traders and the Fight against Disease in the Age of Abolition

Three. Cruising for Slaves and Boating up Rivers: Anti–Slave Trade Patrols and the Fight against Disease across the Atlantic

Four. “Such an Asylum of Wretchedness”: Anti–Slave Trade Reception Centers, Hospitals, and Cemeteries

Five. A Shared Struggle: Cooperation, Learning, and Knowledge Exchange in the Atlantic World

Closing Remarks

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-25201-3

OCLC:

1148880639