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Medicine and Slavery The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia

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ISBN-10: 025200874X

ISBN-13: 9780252008740

Edition: 2002

Authors: Todd L. Savitt

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Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 1/1/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.034

Preface
Introduction: Were Blacks Medically Different from Whites?
Health and the Slave Quarters
Clothing, Food, and Working Conditions
Other Health Problems and Conditions
White and Black Medicine
Care of Urban and Industrial Slaves, the Aged, and Free Blacks
Epidemics
Insanity
Blacks as Medical Specimens
Afterword: Medicine, Slavery, and the Historian
Note on Sources
Index