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Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa - Medical Encounters, 1500-1850 (Hardcover)
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Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa - Medical Encounters, 1500-1850 (Hardcover)
Series: Global Health Histories
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In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in Central and
West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, Kalle
Kananoja focuses on 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. The mobility
and circulation of healing techniques and materials was an
important feature of the early modern Black Atlantic world. African
healing specialists not only crossed the Atlantic to the Americas,
but also moved within and between African regions to offer their
services. At times, patients, Europeans included, travelled
relatively long distances in Africa to receive treatment.
Highlighting cross-cultural medical exchanges, Kananoja shows that
local African knowledge was central to shaping responses to
illness, providing a fresh, global perspective on African medicine
and vernacular science in the early modern world.
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