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Medical encounters [electronic resource] : knowledge and identity in early American literatures / Kelly Wisecup.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Native Americans of the Northeast | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:
  • 9781613762882
  • 1613762887
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 610 23
LOC classification:
  • R151 .W57 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Epidemic, encounter, and colonial promotion in Virginia -- Healing, medical authority, and moral degeneration in New England -- African testimony, dangerous communications, and colonial medical knowledge in the 1721 Boston -- Inoculation controversy -- Obeah, slave revolt, and plantation medicine in the British West Indies -- Drunkenness, syphilis, and history in Samson Occom's medical writing.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epidemic, encounter, and colonial promotion in Virginia -- Healing, medical authority, and moral degeneration in New England -- African testimony, dangerous communications, and colonial medical knowledge in the 1721 Boston -- Inoculation controversy -- Obeah, slave revolt, and plantation medicine in the British West Indies -- Drunkenness, syphilis, and history in Samson Occom's medical writing.

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