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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Londa Schiebinger, âSecret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Worldâ (Stanford UP, 2017)
Description: Londa Schiebingerâs new book Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford University Press, 2017) examines the contexts, programs, and ethics of medical experimentation in the British and French West Indies from the 1760s to the early 19th century. Physicians were enlisted into the plantation systems to ensure the greatest profitability of the enslaved workforces. European practices, however, were ill-equipped for the tropics, and so many looked towards the knowledge of enslaved populations for effective remedies. Schiebinger analyses the circuits and structures of this knowledge exchange within the sugar plantation complex and between these...