Medical Encounters : Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wisecup, Kelly, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medicine in literature.
Medicine.
American literature.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
history of medicine.
Medecine > Histoire.
Medecine dans la litterature.
Medicine in Literature
Indians, North American > history
History of Medicine
Medicine > History.
Medicine > United States > History.
American literature > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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