MEDICAL REVOLUTIONARIES: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue
by Karol K. Weaver
University of Illinois Press, 2006 Paper: 978-0-252-07321-2 | Cloth: 978-0-252-03085-7 Library of Congress Classification R475.H2W43 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 610.97294
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Karol Weaver is an assistant professor of American history and the history of medicine at Susquehanna University.
REVIEWS
"Medical Revolutionaries is a flawlessly written work that should be of interest to a wide variety of scholars and non-scholars alike."--Journal of African American History
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Saint Domingue: Life in the Torrid Zone
2. European Medicine in the Torrid Zone
3. Enslaved Healers on the Plantation
4. Enslaved Herbalists
5. Makandal and the Medical Care of Animals: The
Veterinarians
Who Inspired the Haitian Revolution
6. Magnetism in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue: The
Case of
the Enslaved Magnetists and their Fight for Freedom
7. The Transformative Power of the Kaperlata
Conclusion: The Influence of the Enslaved Healers--
Yesterday,
Today, and Tomorrow
Notes
Bibliography
Index
MEDICAL REVOLUTIONARIES: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue
by Karol K. Weaver
University of Illinois Press, 2006 Paper: 978-0-252-07321-2 Cloth: 978-0-252-03085-7
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Karol Weaver is an assistant professor of American history and the history of medicine at Susquehanna University.
REVIEWS
"Medical Revolutionaries is a flawlessly written work that should be of interest to a wide variety of scholars and non-scholars alike."--Journal of African American History
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Saint Domingue: Life in the Torrid Zone
2. European Medicine in the Torrid Zone
3. Enslaved Healers on the Plantation
4. Enslaved Herbalists
5. Makandal and the Medical Care of Animals: The
Veterinarians
Who Inspired the Haitian Revolution
6. Magnetism in Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue: The
Case of
the Enslaved Magnetists and their Fight for Freedom
7. The Transformative Power of the Kaperlata
Conclusion: The Influence of the Enslaved Healers--
Yesterday,
Today, and Tomorrow
Notes
Bibliography
Index