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Medical encounters : knowledge and identity in early American literatures /

"Kelly Wisecup examines how European settlers, Native Americans, and New World Africans communicated medical knowledge in early America, and how the colonists represented what they learned in their literatures."--Book cover.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wisecup, Kelly, 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Series:Native Americans of the Northeast.
Subjects:
Medicine > United States > History.
Traditional medicine > United States > History.
Medicine in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
History of Medicine.
Medicine in Literature.
Indians, North American > history.
United States.
American literature.
Medicine.
Traditional medicine.
Literatur.
Medizin.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Description
Summary:"Kelly Wisecup examines how European settlers, Native Americans, and New World Africans communicated medical knowledge in early America, and how the colonists represented what they learned in their literatures."--Book cover.
Physical Description:xi, 259 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-254) and index.
ISBN:9781625340566
1625340567
9781625340573
1625340575