In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The
history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and
miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore
humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger
examines medicine and human experimentation in the Atlantic World,
exploring the circulation of people, disease, plants, and knowledge
between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. She traces the
development of a colonial medical complex from the 1760s, when a
robust experimental culture emerged in the British and French West
Indies, to the early 1800s, when debates raged about banning the
slave trade and, eventually, slavery itself. Massive mortality
among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and
sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian,
African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging
from the collision of peoples on newly established, often poorly
supplied, plantations. But not all knowledge was equal.
Highlighting the violence and fear endemic to colonial struggles,
Schiebinger explores aspects of African medicine that were not put
to the test, such as Obeah and vodou. This book analyzes how and
why specific knowledges were blocked, discredited, or held secret.
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