Kalle Kananoja is a senior researcher at the University of Oulu. He is an expert in early modern Atlantic history and has published articles on Angolan and Afro-Brazilian religious and medical culture. Kananoja is the co-editor of Healers and Empires: Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge in Global History, 1700s–1900s (2019).

'An innovative and essential study on public health in the Black Atlantic. Kananoja traces the mobility of West Central African healers across the Atlantic, as specialists on medical knowledge and spiritual power. This is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on European appropriation of African knowledge, West Central Africa, and early modern medicine and natural history.' Mariana P. Candido, Emory University

• 1. Healing (and harming) specialists: plural medicine in Angola and Kongo; 2. Cross-Cultural experiments: the materiality of medicine in West-Central Africa; 3. 'Much better suited than we are, as regards their health care': African botanical expertise and medical knowledge on the Gold Coast; 4. Remedies on the spot: science, agricultural development and botanical knowledge in Sierra Leone ca. 1800; 5. Healers, hospitals and medicines: European medical practice in Angola; 6. Treating their symptoms: limits of humoural medicine; 7. Migrations: medical geography in the Southern Atlantic; 8. Conclusion.

Kalle Kananoja is a senior researcher at the University of Oulu. He is an expert in early modern Atlantic history and has published articles on Angolan and Afro-Brazilian religious and medical culture. Kananoja is the co-editor of Healers and Empires: Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge in Global History, 1700s–1900s (2019).

'An innovative and essential study on public health in the Black Atlantic. Kananoja traces the mobility of West Central African healers across the Atlantic, as specialists on medical knowledge and spiritual power. This is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on European appropriation of African knowledge, West Central Africa, and early modern medicine and natural history.' Mariana P. Candido, Emory University

• 1. Healing (and harming) specialists: plural medicine in Angola and Kongo; 2. Cross-Cultural experiments: the materiality of medicine in West-Central Africa; 3. 'Much better suited than we are, as regards their health care': African botanical expertise and medical knowledge on the Gold Coast; 4. Remedies on the spot: science, agricultural development and botanical knowledge in Sierra Leone ca. 1800; 5. Healers, hospitals and medicines: European medical practice in Angola; 6. Treating their symptoms: limits of humoural medicine; 7. Migrations: medical geography in the Southern Atlantic; 8. Conclusion.

Kalle Kananoja is a senior researcher at the University of Oulu. He is an expert in early modern Atlantic history and has published articles on Angolan and Afro-Brazilian religious and medical culture. Kananoja is the co-editor of Healers and Empires: Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge in Global History, 1700s–1900s (2019).

'An innovative and essential study on public health in the Black Atlantic. Kananoja traces the mobility of West Central African healers across the Atlantic, as specialists on medical knowledge and spiritual power. This is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on European appropriation of African knowledge, West Central Africa, and early modern medicine and natural history.' Mariana P. Candido, Emory University

• 1. Healing (and harming) specialists: plural medicine in Angola and Kongo; 2. Cross-Cultural experiments: the materiality of medicine in West-Central Africa; 3. 'Much better suited than we are, as regards their health care': African botanical expertise and medical knowledge on the Gold Coast; 4. Remedies on the spot: science, agricultural development and botanical knowledge in Sierra Leone ca. 1800; 5. Healers, hospitals and medicines: European medical practice in Angola; 6. Treating their symptoms: limits of humoural medicine; 7. Migrations: medical geography in the Southern Atlantic; 8. Conclusion.