The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History

ISBN: 9780521524704 出版年：1985 页码：290 Kenneth F Kiple Cambridge University Press

List of tables Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Background and Biology: Introduction 1. The peoples and their pathogens 2. West African diet and disease 3. The parameters of West African survival Part II. Diet, Disease, and Demography: Introduction 4. The middle passage and malnutrition 5. Plantation nutrition 6. Malnutrition: morbidity and mortality 7. Slave demography 8. Slave infant and child mortality 9. Black diseases and white medicine Part III. Pathogens and Politics: Introduction 10. Fevers and race 11. Epilogue: diet, disease, and displacement Notes Bibliographic essay Index.