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Doctoring freedom : the politics of African American medical care in slavery and emancipation / by Gretchen Long.
Van Pelt Library RA448.5.N4 L66 2012
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Gretchen.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black or African American--history.
- Enslaved persons.
- Social conditions.
- Health and race.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Medical care.
- Enslaved persons--Health and hygiene.
- United States.
- Delivery of Health Care--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physicians--history.
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans.
- Enslaved persons--Health and hygiene--Southern States--History.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History.
- Plantation life.
- Southern States.
- Enslaved persons--Medical care--Southern States--History.
- Health and race--Southern States--History.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions.
- Medical Subjects:
- Black or African American--history.
- United States.
- Delivery of Health Care--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physicians--history.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 234 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- When the slaves got sick : antebellum medical practice
- Sickness rages fearfully among them : a wartime medical crisis and its implications
- We have come out like men : African American military medical care
- We have come to a conclusion to bind ourselves together : African American associations and medical care
- No license; nor no deplomer : regulating private medical practice and public space
- By nature specially fitted for the care of the sufferer : black doctors, nurses, and patients after the war.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807835838
- 0807835838
- OCLC:
- 781279029
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