people, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world /
Londa Schiebinger.
Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2017]
1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The rise of scientific medicine -- Experiments with the Negro Dr's materia medica -- Medical ethics -- Exploitive experiments -- The colonial crucible : debates over slavery -- Conclusion : the circulation of knowledge.
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This book explores the history of drug development and testing in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, looking especially at whether slaves were exploited in human medical experiments at the time.
Secret cures of slaves.
9781503600171
Blacks-- Medicine-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.
Human experimentation in medicine-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.
Slaves-- Health and hygiene-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.
Traditional medicine-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.
Tropical medicine-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.