Medical Encounters : Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures, Pa...
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Medical Encounters : Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures, Pa.... Medical Encounters : Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures, Paperback by Wisecup, Kelly, ISBN 1625340575, ISBN-13 9781625340573, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Wisecup examines how colonists, Native Americans, and Africans communicated medical knowledge in colonial encounters throughout British America, and investigates representations of such communications in early American literature. She includes the transatlantic and international contexts, looking at exchanges between colonists and the European counterparts as well as between parties in the colonial milieu. Among the topics are epidemic, encounter, and colonial promotion in Virginia; African testimony, dangerous communications, and colonial medical knowledge in the 1721 Boston inoculation controversy; and obeah, slave revolt, and plantation medicine in the British West Indies. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
