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852306
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Schiebinger, Londa L.
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| Title & Author
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Secret cures of slaves : : people, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world /\ Londa Schiebinger.
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, California :: Stanford University Press,, [2017]
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1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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1503602982
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: 9781503602984
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1503600173
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1503602915
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9781503600171
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9781503602915
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Blacks-- Medicine-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.
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Human experimentation in medicine-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.
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Slaves-- Health and hygiene-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.
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Traditional medicine-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.
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Tropical medicine-- West Indies-- History-- 18th century.
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African Continental Ancestry Group-- history.
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Enslaved Persons-- history.
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Human Experimentation-- history.
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Medicine, Traditional-- history.
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Tropical Medicine-- history.
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Blacks-- Medicine.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Holism.
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HEALTH FITNESS-- Reference.
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Human experimentation in medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Atlases.
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MEDICAL-- Essays.
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MEDICAL-- Family General Practice.
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MEDICAL-- Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Osteopathy.
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Slaves-- Health and hygiene.
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Traditional medicine.
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Tropical medicine.
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West Indies.
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| Dewey Classification
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610.72/408996073
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| LC Classification
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R853.H8S347 2017
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| NLM classification
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W 20.55.H9
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