Title Plants and empire : colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world / Londa Schiebinger.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	581.634 S332P	Check Shelf

Description	x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-297) and index.
Contents	"The Base for All Economics" -- Voyaging Out -- Botanistes Voyageurs -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Biopirates -- Who Owns Nature? -- Voyaging Botanical Assistants -- Creole Naturalists and Long-Term Residents -- Armchair Botanists -- The Search for the Amazons -- Heroic Narratives -- Bioprospecting -- Drug Prospecting in the West Indies -- Biocontact Zones -- Secrets and Monopolies -- Drug Prospecting at Home -- Brokers of International Knowledge -- Exotic Abortifacients -- Merian's Peacock Flower -- Abortion in Europe -- Abortion in the West Indies -- Abortion and the Slave Trade -- The Fate of the Peacock Flower in Europe -- Animal Testing -- Self-Experimentation -- Human Subjects -- Testing for Sexual Difference -- The Complications of Race -- Abortifacients -- Linguistic Imperialism -- Empire and Naming the Kingdoms of Nature -- Naming Conundrums -- Exceptions: Quassia and Cinchona -- Alternative Naming Practices -- Conclusion: Agnotology.
Summary	"In this account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean population."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject	Pride-of-Barbados (Plant)
	Herbal abortifacients -- History.
	Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History.
	Pharmacognosy -- history. (DNLM)D010598Q000266
	Colonialism -- history. (DNLM)D018595Q000266
	Abortifacient Agents -- history. (DNLM)D000019Q000266
	Caesalpinia. (DNLM)D029911
	History, 18th Century. (DNLM)D049671
	Caribbean Region. (DNLM)D017691
	42.01 history of biology. (NL-LeOCL)077602943
	42.59 botany: other. (NL-LeOCL)077603362
	Herbal abortifacients. (OCoLC)fst00955313
	Pride-of-Barbados (Plant) (OCoLC)fst01201258
	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
	Caribbean Area. (OCoLC)fst01244080
	Bioprospektion (DE-588)4613531-5
	Imperialismus (DE-588)4026651-5
	Westindien (DE-588)4079228-6
	Kolonialisme.
	Ontdekkingsreizen.
	Geneeskrachtige planten.
	Abortus provocatus.
	Caesalpinia pulcherrima.
	Bioprospektion.
	Imperialismus.
	Westindien.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	History (form) (NL-LeOCL)088143147
ISBN	0674014871 (cloth)
	9780674014879 (cloth)
	0674025687
	9780674025684
	9780674043275
	0674043278

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