The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic

The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic /

"Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body, healing, and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gómez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free...

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Main Author: Gómez, Pablo F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Subjects:
1600-1699
Traditional medicine > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
Healing > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
Experiential learning > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
Free Black people > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Active learning.
Medicine, Traditional > history
History, 17th Century
Problem-Based Learning
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Medicine
Experiential learning
Free Black people
Healing
Traditional medicine
Schwarze
Volksmedizin
Caribbean Region
Caribbean Area
Karibik
Caribbean region.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Arrivals
  • Landscapes
  • Movement
  • Sensual knowledge
  • Social pharmacopeias
  • Astounding creativity
  • Truth and the experiential.

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