Medical encounters [electronic resource] : knowledge and identity in early American literatures / Kelly Wisecup.
Material type: TextSeries: 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
- 610 23
- R151 .W57 2013
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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