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Medical encounters : knowledge and identity in early American literatures /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wisecup, Kelly, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
Colección:Native Americans of the Northeast.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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