Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Sean Morey.

Willoughby, Christopher.

Berry, Chelsea L.

Derby, Lauren.

Fett, Sharla M.

Gamble, Vanessa Northington.

Hicks, Mary E.

Hogarth, Rana A.

Lockley, Timothy James, 1971-

mitchell, elisa a.

Cooper Owens, Deirdre Benia, 1972-

Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-

waters, brandi m.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

Enslaved persons.

Healing.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Summary:

CONTENTS:Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble&quote;Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,&quote; Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby&quote;Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola,&quote; Lauren Derby&quote;Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities,&quote; Chelsea Berry&quote;Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West African Corporeal Imagination in Salvador da Bahia,1793-1843,&quote; Mary E. Hicks&quote;Examining Antebellum Medicine through Haptic Studies,&quote; Deirdre Cooper Owens&quote;Unbelievable Suffering: Rethinking Feigned Illness in Slavery and the Slave Trade,&quote; Elise A. Mitchell&quote;Medicalizing Manumission: Slavery, Disability, and Medical Testimony in Late Colonial Colombia,&quote;Brandi M. Waters&quote;A Case Study in Charleston: Impressions of the Early National Slave Hospital,&quote; Rana A. Hogarth&quote;From Skin to Blood: Interpreting Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever,&quote; Timothy James Lockley&quote;Black Bodies, Medical Science, and the Age of Emancipation,&quote; Leslie A. Schwalm&quote;Epilogue: Black Atlantic Healing in the Wake,&quote; Sharla M. Fett

ISBN:

9780807176733

0807176737