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"--

subjects: Traditional medicine, caribbean area,  Healing,  Experiential learning,  Free blacks,  Traditional medicine,  History,  Schwarze,  Volksmedizin,  Free Black people,  Delivery of Health Care,  Ethnology,  Blacks,  Enslaved Persons,  Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice,  History, 17th Century,  Ethnomédecine,  Guérison,  Apprentissage par la pratique,  Noirs affranchis