Londa Schiebinger
Auteur van Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
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Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University. She is the author of the award-winning Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004), among many other works.
Werken van Londa Schiebinger
Secret cures of slaves : people, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world (2017) 28 exemplaren
"The Loves of the Plants" 1 exemplaar
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The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science (2003) — Medewerker — 68 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- Schiebinger, Londa
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Schiebinger, Londa L. (fuller name)
- Geboortedatum
- 1952-05-13
- Geslacht
- female
- Opleiding
- University of Nebraska (BA|English|1974)
Harvard University (MA|History|1977)
Harvard University (PhD|History|1984) - Beroepen
- Professor of the History of Science
- Relaties
- Swan, Claudia (co-editor)
Proctor, Robert N. (husband) - Organisaties
- Stanford University (The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science)
Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research (The Barbara D. Finberg Director)
Pennsylvania State University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (1999)
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- #41,417
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- 36
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Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging from the collision of peoples on newly established, often poorly supplied, plantations. But not all knowledge was equal. Highlighting the violence and fear endemic to colonial struggles, Schiebinger explores aspects of African medicine that were not put to the test, such as Obeah and vodou. This book analyzes how and why specific knowledges were blocked, discredited, or held secret.… (meer)