?The Yellow Demon of Fever is a stunning scholarly achievement. This highly readable social history is an indispensable study for anyone interested in knowledge exchanges in the Atlantic world.??Judith Carney, University of California, Los Angeles?A landmark study in the history of medicine and Atlantic slavery. Unrestrained by linguistic or imperial boundaries, Barcia?s ground-breaking book exposes the struggle for racial and medical control in the ?contact zones? of the Atlantic slave trade.??Katherine Paugh, University of Oxford?A tour de force. Barcia?s deeply researched and well-written book opens a fascinating, disturbing, and vital window into the illegal slave trade of the nineteenth century and the advancement of medical knowledge.??Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University?Extraordinary. A breakthrough work, among the most insightful histories of the nineteenth century written in the past half century."?Dale Graden, University of Idaho?This is original and well researched. It is an important contribution. I know Barcia?s work very well, and this is his best book yet.?? Paul Lovejoy, York University Biografía del autor Manuel Barcia is chair of global history at the University of Leeds and a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in History.