Slavery's medicine : illness and labor in the British plantation Caribbean /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gherini, Claire (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025.
Series:	Early American histories.
Subjects:	Medicine > West Indies, British > History > 18th century. Enslaved persons > Health and hygiene > West Indies, British > History > 18th century. Plantation workers > Health and hygiene > West Indies, British > History > 18th century.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Catastrophe's threshold : enslaved sufferers, speech, and the negotiation of incapacity
The new business of plantation medicine
"All lesser matters related to the sick" : enslaved healers and the greater work of improvement medicine
Uncontrolled experiments.