The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764-1834

Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity

• Author(s): Emily Senior,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 284
• ISBN_10: 1108416810
  ISBN_13: 9781108416818
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Renaissance , Medical / General , Medical / Infectious Diseases , Medical / Epidemiology , Medical / History , Poetry / General , Social Science / Slavery ,

Description:... Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of llustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Communicating Disease -- Part I Health, Geography and Aesthetics -- Chapter 1 'What New Forms of Death' -- 'West-India Georgic' -- Georgic Organicism -- Empire of Experiment -- Imitation and Innovation -- Chapter 2 The Diagnostics of Description -- The Diagnostics of Description -- Colonial Picturesque -- Medical Topographical Aesthetics -- 'A Change of Air and Place' -- Colonial Gothic -- Medical Vision -- Part II Colonial Bodies -- Chapter 3 Skin, Textuality and Colonial Feeling -- Climate and Complexion: The Porosity of Skin -- Inside/Out: The Body without Skin -- Narratives of Body and Text -- Sentimental Textuality -- Chapter 4 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World' -- Creole Pathologies -- 'Not One of the World's Family' -- Creole Modernities -- Creoles and Atlantic Medical and Natural Knowledge -- Part III Revolution and Abolition -- Chapter 5 The 'Intimate Union of Medicine and Magic' -- Obeah in the Archive -- Obeah and Medicine in the British Caribbean -- The Contagious Imagination -- Three-Fingered Jack and the Performance of Prophecy -- Colonial Gothic and Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827) -- Mimesis and Modernity -- Afterword: Colonial Modernities and after Abolition -- Notes -- Communicating Disease -- 1 'What New Forms of Death' -- 2 The Diagnostics of Description -- 3 Skin, Textuality and Colonial Feeling -- 4 'A Seasoned Creole' and 'a Citizen of the World' -- 5 The 'Intimate Union of Medicine and Magic' -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index