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Author Cagle, Hugh, author.

Title Assembling the tropics : science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700 / Hugh Cagle
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in comparative world history
Studies in comparative world history.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figures; Maps; Acknowledgments; A Note on Spelling and Translation; List of Abbreviations; 1 Reading between the Lines; The Death of Dr. Vogel; Empires and Their Tropics; Cultures of Inquiry and the Location of Expertise; On Method and Terminology; Part I The Coast of Africa, 1450-1550; 2 Dead Reckonings; Beyond the Senegal; Points of Orientation; Hippocratic Pathologies; Fevers and Febrifuges in the Early Atlantic
Cosmographic Inscriptions and Intertropical PossibilitiesPart II The Indian Ocean World, 1500-1600; 3 Itineraries and Inventories; No Bells to Honor the Dead; Fluvial Disarray, Medical Emergency; Partial Perspectives; Cartographies of Natural History; Epistemologies of the Pepper Trade; 4 Drug Traffic; Lost in Translation; Language, Novelty, and Global Order; Empiricism by the Book; Global Trade and the Limits of Experience; The Politics of Depiction; 5 Facts and Fictions; A Temple on the Mainland; Rumor Has It; Agnotology and a Subversive Leaf; India House; Where the Truth Lies
Part III The Portuguese Atlantic, 1550-17006 Moral Hazards; The Ambivalence of Wonder; Disease and Dissent; Company Science; Shamanism; Patterns of Inquiry; 7 Split Decisions; The View from Lisbon; Fever and an Atlantic Epidemiology; Geographies of Medical Authority; Cosmopolitanism, Native Secrets, and the Planter-Naturalist; Atlantic Itineraries, Imperial Transformations; 8 Fault Lines; The Accidental Naturalist; Coconut Palms and Global Measures; Fever, Print Culture, and Reform; Intertropical Contagion; Assembling the Tropics; 9 Epilogue
Alchemy, Transplantations, and the Language of EmpireRelocating Expertise in the Early Modern World; Bibliography; Archives and Collections; Brazil; France; India; Portugal; United Kingdom; Printed Contemporary Sources (including early modern books of medicine and natural history); Modern Sources; Index
Summary This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2018)
Subject Tropical medicine -- History
Public health -- Portugal -- Colonies
Science -- Portugal -- History
Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
Tropical Medicine -- history
Colonialism -- history
Public Health Practice -- history
Science -- history
History, 15th Century
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Medicine
Public health -- Portuguese colonies
Science
Tropical medicine
SUBJECT Portugal
Subject Portugal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108195300
110819530X
9781108164856
1108164854