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Medicine and slavery : the diseases and health care of Blacks in antebellum Virginia / Todd L. Savitt.
LIBRA - Rare R345 .S28 1978 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-
- Series:
- Blacks in the New World
- Blacks in the New World.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Medicine.
- African Americans--Diseases--Virginia--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Enslaved persons--Virginia--Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons.
- Public health.
- History.
- African Americans--Diseases.
- Virginia.
- Social conditions.
- Public health--Virginia--History--19th century.
- History of Medicine.
- Black People--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Medicine.
- Virginia.
- Black People--history.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 332 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : The University of Illinois Press, 1978.
- Summary:
- Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination.
- In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of antebellum African Americans, slave and free, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Were Blacks Medically Different from Whites?
- Health and the Slave Quarters
- Clothing, Food, and Working Conditions
- Other Health Problems and Conditions
- White and Black Medicine
- Care of Urban and Industrial Slaves, the Aged, and Free Blacks
- Epidemics
- Insanity
- Blacks as Medical Specimens
- Afterword: Medicine, Slavery, and the Historian.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "An Illini Book from The University of Illinois Press".
- ISBN:
- 0252006534 :
- 025200874X
- OCLC:
- 3893634
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