Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799)

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-933227-69-6
Verlag: Tagus Press

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 265 g

Reihe: Classic Histories from the Portuguese-Speaking World in Translation

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Azeredo, José Pinto de

Walker, Timothy

Walker, Timothy D

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lloyd-Jones, Stewart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS
- Medical Inquiry in the Enlightenment-Era Portuguese Imperial World: Azeredo's Scientific Publications in Context - Timothy Walker
- Describing and Explaining: The Systematic Horizon of the Essays by José Pinto de Azeredo - Adelino Cardoso
- Shadows in the Enlightenment of Imperial Tropics: José Pinto de Azeredo's Enfermidades de Angola - António Braz de Oliveira and Manuel Silvério Marques
- Essays on Some Maladies of Angola - José Pinto de Azeredo
- Bibliography
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.