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The experiential Caribbean: creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic<\/a>\u00a0by Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies people\u00a0used to create knowledge about the human body and the natural world in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century.<\/p>\n Adam\u00a0Warren, p<\/span>rofessor at Department of History, University of Washington, reviews the book in the current issue of Manguinhos (vol.25\u00a0\u00a0supl.1\u00a0Aug.\u00a02018).<\/p>\n “It is a sweeping, ambitious, and provocative analysis of the various practices and beliefs black ritual specialists and healers in the Caribbean employed under Spanish colonial rule to create truths about the world around them and address the forms of sickness and health they encountered,” says the review.<\/p>\n Related articles in\u00a0Manguinhos:<\/p>\n Public Health Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: new dossier online<\/a>\u00a0– This issue features a dossier on public health policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies<\/a>\u00a0– Its latest issue, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the journal includes articles about LGBT rights, urban development and neoliberalism in Latin America.<\/p>\n Public health and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a>\u00a0– Magali Romero S\u00e1, Deputy Director of Research at Fiocruz, explains the main issues to be addressed in the conference \u201cPublic Health and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean\u201d.<\/p>\n Calls for Papers: Public Health and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a>\u00a0– The conference will be held on July 6-9, 2016, in the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago<\/p>\n Latin America and Caribbean Network on Labour History<\/a>\u00a0– This website provides significant information on archival collections about Labour History in Latin American countries and the Caribbean world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Tropical medicine in occupied Haiti, 1915-1934<\/a>\u00a0– This work reflected Haiti\u2019s status as a public health \u201claboratory\u201d which affected Haitian medicine for years to come and significantly influenced future campaigns aimed at disease eradication.<\/p>\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/51OrvMZrRIL._SX329_BO1204203200_.jpg\")
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