The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic /
Pablo F. Gómez.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Arrivals -- Landscapes -- Movement -- Sensual knowledge -- Social pharmacopeias -- Astounding creativity -- Truth and the experiential.
"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"--