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Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Jim Downs.
Van Pelt Library RA448.5.N4 D69 2012
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downs, Jim, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Health and hygiene--History.
- African Americans.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Health aspects--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Freed persons--Diseases--United States.
- Freed persons.
- Diseases.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
- African Americans--Health and hygiene.
- History.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Health aspects.
- United States.
- Black People--history.
- Health Services Accessibility--history.
- Health Status.
- Medical Subjects:
- Black People--history.
- Health Services Accessibility--history.
- Health Status.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. Dying to be Free: The Unexpected Medical Crises of War and Emancipation
- Ch. 2. The Anatomy of Emancipation: The Creation of a Healthy Labor Force
- Ch. 3. Freedmen's Hospitals: The Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau
- Ch. 4. Reconstructing an Epidemic: Smallpox among Former Slaves, 1862-1868
- Ch. 5. The Healing Power of Labor: Disabled, Orphaned, Elderly, and Female Freed Slaves in the Postwar South
- Ch. 6. Narrating Illness: Freedpeople's Health Claims at Reconstruction's End
- Conclusion
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199758722
- 0199758727
- OCLC:
- 760975615
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