The yellow demon of fever : fighting disease in the nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade / Manuel Barcia.

  • Barcia Paz, Manuel, 1972-
Date:
[2020]
  • Books

About this work

Description

A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge.

Publication/Creation

New Haven, NY : Yale University Press, [2020]

Physical description

xi, 281 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"A beautiful spot for a grave" : prophylaxis and prevention in the slave-trade contact zones -- The blood of thousands : slave traders and the fight against disease in the age of abolition -- Cruising for slaves and boating up rivers : anti-slave trade patrols and the fight against disease across the atlantic -- "Such an asylum of wretchedness" : anti-slave trade reception centers, hospitals, and cemeteries -- A shared struggle : cooperation, learning, and knowledge exchange in the Atlantic world.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JQC.AA8
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780300215854
  • 0300215851