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Science & medicine / James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson, volume editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 22.
- New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 22
- The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Series ; v.22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Southern States--Encyclopedias.
- Science.
- Medicine--Southern States--Encyclopedias.
- Medicine.
- Southern States--Social conditions--Encyclopedias.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 281 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and Medicine.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; General Introduction; Introduction; SCIENCE AND MEDICINE; Abortion; Aerospace; Agriculture, Scientific; Alcohol and Alcoholism; American Indian Health and Medicine; Childbirth, Antebellum; Civil War Medicine; Climate and Weather; Drug Use; Education, Medical; Environmental Health; Eugenics; Folk Medicine; Gender and Health; Healers, Women; Health, African American; Health, Mental; Health, Public; Health, Rural; Health, Worker; Maternal and Child Health, Urban; Medical Care, Public Health, and Race; Medical Centers
- Medical Science, Racial Ideology, and Practice, to ReconstructionMedicine, States' Rights; Obesity; Physicians, African American; Poverty, Effects of; Professionalization of Science; Racialized Medicine; Racism, Scientific; Science and Religion (Evolution vs. Creationism); Slavery and Medicine; Slaves in Medical Education and Medical Experiments; Surgeons General; Technological Education; Technology; Urban Health Conditions; Barnard, Frederick A. P.; Cancer Alley (Louisiana); Carver, George Washington; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Country Doctor; Creation Science; DDT
- DeBakey, MichaelFaith Healing; Frontier Nursing Service; Garden, Alexander; Geophagia and Pica; Guyton, Arthur C.; Hardy, James D.; Herty, Charles Holmes; HIV/AIDS; Hookworm; Hoxsey Therapy; Influenza Epidemic of 1918; LeConte, John and Joseph; Leprosy; Lewis, Henry Clay; Long, Crawford W.; Malaria; Maury, Matthew Fontaine; McDowell, Ephraim; Medical Committee for Human Rights; Medical Museums; Medicine Shows and Patent Medicines; Meharry Medical College; Moore, Samuel Preston; Pellagra; Poteat, William Louis; Reed, Walter; Research Triangle Park; Ruffin, Edmund
- St. Jude Children's Research HospitalSavannah River Site; Scopes Trial; Sickle Cell Anemia; Sims, J. Marion; Slave Hospitals; Tuskegee Syphilis Study (United States Public Health Service Syphilis Study); Whitfield (Mississippi State Hospital); Yellow Fever.
- Notes:
- "Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
- "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908861-8-7
- 979-88-9313-457-5
- 1-4696-0143-5
- 0-8078-3743-1
- OCLC:
- 819717285
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