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Working cures : healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations / Sharla M. Fett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fett, Sharla M.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture.
- Gender and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Healing--Southern States--History.
- Healing.
- Health and race--Southern States--History.
- Health and race.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History.
- Plantation life.
- Enslaved persons--Health and hygiene--Southern States--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Medical care--Southern States--History.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Working Cures : Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Visions of Health; Chapter 1. Soundness; Chapter 2. Spirit and Power; Chapter 3. Sacred Plants; Chapter 4. Conjuring Community; Part II. Arenas of Conflict; Chapter 5. Doctoring Women; Chapter 6. Danger and Distrust; Chapter 7. Fooling the Master; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890869807
- 9780807898925
- 0807898929
- OCLC:
- 500643347
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