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African Medicine in the Atlantic World - Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500-1850 By Kalle Kananoja. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108491259); $80.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781108865302).
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Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500-1850 By Kalle Kananoja. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108491259); $80.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781108865302).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2022
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1 Schiebinger, L., ‘The Atlantic World Medical Complex’, in Findlen, P. (ed.), Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World (London, 2019), 317–37Google Scholar.
2 Schiebinger, L., Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Parish, S. S., American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Chapel Hill, 2012)Google Scholar; Gómez, P. F., The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (Chapel Hill, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The first chapter of Sweet's, J. Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (Chapel Hill, 2011)Google Scholar documents the healer Domingos’ life in the kingdom of Dahomey, with the rest of the book tracing his movement across the Atlantic and in the plantations and cities of Brazil.