The Experiential Caribbean

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"Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body, healing, and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gómez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as justified by how it relates to well known frameworks for the study of science and medicine"--
Traditional medicine, caribbean areaHealingExperiential learningFree blacksTraditional medicineHistorySchwarzeVolksmedizinFree Black peopleDelivery of Health CareEthnologyBlacks