Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834
Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834
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医生与奴隶：英属西印度群岛奴隶制的医学和人口史，1680-1834 年
DOI：
10.1001/jama.1986.03370090126037
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1986
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S. Ell
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S. Ell
这是一部有严重缺陷的作品。它代表了相当大的学术努力，作者查阅了几个国家的主要资料来源，并审查了关于这一主题的大量次要著作，但研究需要好的写作来支持。这本书之所以失败，是因为它缺乏一个统一的主题，因为作者似乎对某些类型的证据（主要是医学证据）感到不舒服，因为他的文学风格是傲慢的。作者声明的目的是调查奴隶生活影响健康的那些方面（第十五页）。这些因素包括“文化冲击、饮食、工作量、惩罚、住房、服装、卫生和职业危害。这句话的开头，有其独特的平行结构（当然，“工作量”和“职业危害”应该更接近彼此），以及在学术著作中使用“文化冲击”这样的俚语表达，这并不是偶然的。整本书列出了几乎随机排序的论文的主题不同，
This is a severely flawed work. It represents considerable scholarly effort, the author having consulted primary sources in several countries and reviewed an extensive body of secondary works on the topic, but research needs good writing to back it up. The book fails because the work lacks a unifying theme, because the author seems uncomfortable with certain types of evidence (mainly medical), and because his literary style is ponderous. The author's stated purpose is to investigate those facets of slave life affecting health (p xv). These include "culture shock, diet, work loads, punishment, housing, clothing, sanitation, and occupational hazards." This initial sentence, with its peculiar parallel construction (surely, "work loads" and "occupational hazards" ought to come nearer one another) and the use of an essentially slang expression like "culture shock" in a scholarly work, is no accident. The entire book sets out practically randomly ordered essays on topics as diverse