Medical revolutionaries : the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue / Karol K. Weaver.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006], ©2006.

xii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-156) and index.

Saint Domingue : life in the torrid zone -- European medicine in the torrid zone -- Enslaved healers on the plantation -- Enslaved herbalists -- Makandal and the medical care of animals : the veterinarians who inspired the Haitian revolution -- Magnetism in eighteenth-century Saint Domingue : the case of the enslaved magnetists and their fight for freedom -- The transformative power of the Kaperlata -- Conclusion : the influence of the enslaved healers, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.