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

A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barcia Paz, Manuel, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
Temas:
1800-1899
Medical geography > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > History > 19th century.
Geography, Medical
Enslaved Persons > history
Géographie médicale > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Modern > 19th century.
Medical geography
Slave trade
Atlantischer Raum
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • 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.

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