Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799) by Azeredo, José Pinto de

Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781933227696)

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Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799) by Azeredo, José Pinto de

Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799)

$24.95
Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799) by Azeredo, José Pinto de

Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799)

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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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).

Author: José Pinto de Azeredo
ISBN-10: 1933227699
ISBN-13: 9781933227696
Publisher: Tagus Press
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2016
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By José Pinto de Azeredo
By José Pinto de Azeredo
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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.

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