Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500-1850 by Kalle Kananoja

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500-1850

Global Health Histories

Kalle Kananoja

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 characte...

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