People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
by
Londa Schiebinger
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in...