Gómez, Pablo F.. The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic

Folger bibliographic ID: 352365
Folger call number: GR120 .G65 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500991

"Pablo F. Gómez 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. Gómez 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"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-266) and index

Contents

Introduction -- Arrivals -- Landscapes -- Movement -- Sensual knowledge -- Social pharmacopeias -- Astounding creativity -- Truth and the experiential -- Conclusion

Extended title: The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic / Pablo F. Gómez

Traditional medicine Healing Experiential learning Free blacks Caribbean Area

author: Gómez, Pablo F.