Essays on Some Maladies of Angola 1799 - Couverture souple

De Azeredo, José Pinto

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933227699 ISBN 13 : 9781933227696

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016

Synopsis

Western science and pharmacology first learned about many African diseases, remedies, and medicinal practices through José Pinto de Azeredo's highly original and influential text. A unique Enlightenment-era medical text written specifically about health issues in Angola, this is the first work by a Portuguese physician to describe accurately, through first-hand observation, medical practices and substances used in Angola during the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.

This first English-language edition of Essays on Some Maladies of Angola was translated by Stewart Lloyd-Jones (University of Stirling) and includes scholarly essays by Timothy Walker (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), Adelino Cardoso (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), António Braz de Oliveira (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal) and Manuel Silvério Marques (Universidade de Lisboa).

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

JOSÉ PINTO DE AZEREDO (1764 1810) was born in Brazil, trained in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and lived in western Africa (Luanda) for nearly a decade at the end of the eighteenth century. He observed indigenous African folk healers to learn their medical traditions. His Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799) is an empirical work of early ethnography through which African conditions influenced European ideas about medicine.

JOSÉ PINTO DE AZEREDO (1764&;1810) was born in Brazil, trained in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and lived in western Africa (Luanda) for nearly a decade at the end of the eighteenth century. He observed indigenous African folk healers to learn their medical traditions. His Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799) is an empirical work of early ethnography through which African conditions influenced European ideas about medicine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1933227699
• ISBN 13: 9781933227696
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 151
• Éditeur: Walker Timothy D., Cardoso Adelino, De Oliveira António Braz
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