Kalle Kananoja (Finland University of Oulu)

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Medical Encounters, 1500-1850

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade, Kananoja considers both African and European perceptions of health, disease and healing. Arguing that the period was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange, he shows that indigenous natural medicine was used by locals and non-Africans alike.

Produktdetails

• Global Health Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781108811781
• ISBN-10: 1108811787
• Artikelnr.: 66114377

Autorenporträt

Kalle Kananoja is a senior researcher at the University of Oulu. He is an expert in early modern Atlantic history and has published articles on Angolan and Afro-Brazilian religious and medical culture. Kananoja is the co-editor of Healers and Empires: Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge in Global History, 1700s¿1900s (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Healing (and harming) specialists: plural medicine in Angola and Kongo;
2. Cross-Cultural experiments: the materiality of medicine in West-Central
Africa; 3. 'Much better suited than we are, as regards their health care':
African botanical expertise and medical knowledge on the Gold Coast; 4.
Remedies on the spot: science, agricultural development and botanical
knowledge in Sierra Leone ca. 1800; 5. Healers, hospitals and medicines:
European medical practice in Angola; 6. Treating their symptoms: limits of
humoural medicine; 7. Migrations: medical geography in the Southern
Atlantic; 8. Conclusion.