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Slavery's Medicine
- Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean
Engelsk
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
268
ISBN-13:
9780813952758
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0813952751
Udg. Dato:
31 aug 2025
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 23,0 x 1,8
Serie:
Early American Histories
Oplagsdato:
31 aug 2025
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Slavery's Medicine

- Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean
Engelsk
Paperback 2025
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Healthcare and hierarchy in Caribbean plantation slavery   From their inception, British Caribbean sugar plantations generated wealth on the basis of nightmarish systems of labor exploitation, where illness was a constant of enslaved life. Then, in the second half of the eighteenth century, plantation owners tried to “improve” plantation slavery, targeting medicine and healing. But rather than improve rates of illness, they sought instead to make the work of medicine and care more economically predictable and efficient and to hurry the sick back to work. Healthcare became an arena for contests for power, as people struggled with one another over the terms of their work and how they recovered from illness. Slavery's Medicine uses a rich and substantial archival base to document the experiences of the sick, managers, doctors, absentee plantation owners, enslaved healers, and medical advice authors in this new, modern system of body management. Modern medicine ultimately sustained hierarchies among enslaved people and middling whites. Yet modern medicine also encouraged acts of resistance. It was, therefore, the creation of proprietors as well as enslaved men and women themselves.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
268
ISBN-13:
9780813952758
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0813952751
Udg. Dato:
31 aug 2025
Størrelse i cm:
15,2 x 23,0 x 1,8
Serie:
Early American Histories
Oplagsdato:
31 aug 2025
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