Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

ISBN-13: 9781108811781 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str.

Finland) Kananoja Kalle (University of Oulu

Opis

Kananoja demonstrates how medical interaction in early modern Atlantic Africa was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange between Africans and Europeans.

Recenzje

'… this book marks a significant step forward in our understanding of how the production of knowledge-in the medical field as well as in others, such as geography-depended upon interaction between European men and African men and women, as well as upon the mobility of these people.' Adam Jones, Metascience

Spis treści

1. Healing (and harming) specialists: plural medicine in Angola and Kongo; 2. Cross-Cultural experiments: the materiality of medicine in West-Central Africa; 3. 'Much better suited than we are, as regards their health care': African botanical expertise and medical knowledge on the Gold Coast; 4. Remedies on the spot: science, agricultural development and botanical knowledge in Sierra Leone ca. 1800; 5. Healers, hospitals and medicines: European medical practice in Angola; 6. Treating their symptoms: limits of humoural medicine; 7. Migrations: medical geography in the Southern Atlantic; 8. Conclusion.