The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge And Healing In The Early Modern Atlantic

Pablo F. Gaomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body, healing, and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gaomez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as justified by how it relates to well known frameworks for the study of science and medicine--

• | Author: Pablo F. Gomez Zuluaga
• | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 17, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 314 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1469630877
• | ISBN-13: 9781469630878