Medical Encounters - Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures

Informationen zum Autor Kelly Wisecup is assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas. Klappentext The conquest and colonisation of the Americas resulted in all kinds of exchanges, including the transmission of diseases and the sharing of medicines to treat them. In this book, Kelly Wisecup examines how European settlers, Native Americans, and New World Africans communicated medical knowledge in early America, and how the colonists represented what they learned in their literatures. Zusammenfassung The conquest and colonisation of the Americas resulted in all kinds of exchanges! including the transmission of diseases and the sharing of medicines to treat them. In this book! Kelly Wisecup examines how European settlers! Native Americans! and New World Africans communicated medical knowledge in early America! and how the colonists represented what they learned in their literatures.

About the author

Kelly Wisecup is assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas.

Product details

• Authors: Kelly Wisecup
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2013
• EAN: 9781625340573
• ISBN: 978-1-62534-057-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Native Americans of the Northe; Native Americans of the Northeast; Native Americans of the Northe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous