The yellow demon of fever : fighting disease in the nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade / Manuel Barcia.
- Barcia Paz, Manuel, 1972-
- Date:
- [2020]
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Description
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge.
Publication/Creation
New Haven, NY : Yale University Press, [2020]
Physical description
xi, 281 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 25 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"A beautiful spot for a grave" : prophylaxis and prevention in the slave-trade contact zones -- The blood of thousands : slave traders and the fight against disease in the age of abolition -- Cruising for slaves and boating up rivers : anti-slave trade patrols and the fight against disease across the atlantic -- "Such an asylum of wretchedness" : anti-slave trade reception centers, hospitals, and cemeteries -- A shared struggle : cooperation, learning, and knowledge exchange in the Atlantic world.
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Location Status History of MedicineJQC.AA8Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780300215854
- 0300215851