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Medical Encounters
Kelly Wisecup
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Description for Medical Encounters
Series: Native Americans of the Northeast. Num Pages: 259 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB; JFSL9; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
The conquest and colonisation 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 early America, and how the colonists represented what they learned in their literatures.
Against the prevailing view that colonial texts provide insight only into their writers’ perspectives, Wisecup demonstrates that Europeans, Natives, and Africans held certain medical ideas in common, including a conception of disease as both a spiritual and a physical entity, and ... Read more
The conquest and colonisation 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 early America, and how the colonists represented what they learned in their literatures.
Against the prevailing view that colonial texts provide insight only into their writers’ perspectives, Wisecup demonstrates that Europeans, Natives, and Africans held certain medical ideas in common, including a conception of disease as both a spiritual and a physical entity, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
Series
Native Americans of the Northeast
Number of Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625340573
SKU
V9781625340573
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Ref
99-1
About Kelly Wisecup
Kelly Wisecup is assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas.
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