| Preface | p. ix |
| Diseases and Disorders of African Americans | |
| Smothering and Overlaying of Virginia Slave Children: A Suggested Explanation | p. 3 |
| Filariasis (Elephantiasis) in the United States | p. 7 |
| Race, Medicine, and the Discovery of Sickle Cell Anemia: Introduction | p. 16 |
| Herrick's 1910 Case Report of Sickle Cell Anemia, Chicago, Illinois | p. 18 |
| Washburn's 1911 Case Report of Sickle Cell Anemia, Charlottesville, Virginia | p. 28 |
| Sickle Cell Anemia: The Invisible Malady | p. 39 |
| Health and Health Care during Slavery and Reconstruction | |
| Black Health on the Plantation | p. 53 |
| Medical Experimentation and Demonstration on Blacks in the Old South | p. 77 |
| Slave Life Insurance in Virginia and North Carolina | p. 89 |
| The Georgia Freedmen's Bureau and the Organization of Health Care, 1865-66 | p. 101 |
| African American Medical Schools | |
| The Rise and Decline of African American Medical Schools: Introduction | p. 121 |
| Lincoln University Medical Department | p. 125 |
| Straight University Medical Department: Black Medical Education in Reconstruction New Orleans | p. 139 |
| The Education of Black Physicians at Shaw University, 1882-1918 | p. 154 |
| Training the "Consecrated, Skillful, Christian Physician": Student Life at Leonard Medical School | p. 169 |
| Four African American Proprietary Medical Colleges, 1888-1923 | p. 189 |
| Money versus Mission at Knoxville College Medical Department, 1895-1900 | p. 225 |
| Abraham Flexner and the Black Medical Schools | p. 252 |
| The Black Medical Profession | |
| Entering a "White" Profession, 1880-1920 | p. 269 |
| "A Journal of Our Own": The Medical and Surgical Observer in Late-Nineteenth-Century America | p. 295 |
| Walking the Color Line: Alonzo McClennan, the Hospital Herald, and Segregated Medicine | p. 316 |
| Appendix | p. 339 |
| Notes | p. 353 |
| Index | p. 435 |
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